By Darrell Pursiful
Although Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus usually gets better press, I’m partial to Luke’s. With its eleven sets of seven names, it is at least as elaborately balanced as Matthews 3x14 structure. As with Matthew, many of them are of people nobody has ever heard of. Also like Matthew, Luke names the great heroes of the Bible.
Unlike Matthew, Luke takes us all the way to the beginning: all the way to Adam himself. I suspect that is Luke’s subtle way of telling us that Jesus is for everybody, every child of Adam’s race—even shepherds, soldiers, sinners, Sidonian widows, and Syrian lepers.
Welcome!This Lenten season, the First Baptist Church of Christ will take the time to listen to the entire New Testament (days and passages are listed on the right column). Through our partnership with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, every member of the church will be offered a free MP3 recording of the New Testament. By listening to this recording for less than half an hour each day, one can hear the entire New Testament in forty days.
At this blog, you’ll be able to read some of our members’ thoughts about what they are hearing. Our contributors reflect the great diversity of our congregation. They are male and female, older and younger, some with a seminary background and some without. As you read their questions, reflections, and observations, I invite you to join the conversation by posting a comment.
Friday, February 26, 2010
February 26: Luke 1–4
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