The Luke-Acts Project, Week 1, day 2: Luke 1:1-4 - A Voice Of Authority or The Doctor Is In. What happens when God gets hold of a doctor, gives him a new life and a new consciousness, complete with the realization that people arent necessarily healthy and whole just because their bodies and minds function properly, even exquisitely--that we are more than just incredible machines? You get the Gospel of Luke and its sequel, The Acts Of The Apostles. These two books, authored by the beloved physician Luke, are written to be coherent, comprehensive, detailed and intricate accounts of the events surrounding the earthly life and work of Jesus of Nazareth, and in Acts the carrying on of that work as His followers are forged to become His Church. But what does it mean? one might ask. Dr. Luke approaches the events as a doctor, he studies them, he studies the people telling him, he studies the before, during, and after, he studies the sicknesses, the psychologies, the wounds, and especially the treatments. It means reading Dr. Luke is not like reading Matthew the taxman wholl tell you whats owed or reading Mark, influenced by Peter the fisherman, and being grabbed at like a fish. It means its not even like reading John the sage who will engage and even overwhelm you intellectually. Unlike those, reading Dr. Luke is more like reading an interesting pamphlet in the waiting room at the doctors office, matter-of-factly explaining a spiritual medical condition that is problematic, background information, symptoms observed, and best of all, the Cure. His voice in these words ring true, and the wise will trust them. youtube/watch?v=aJKGAZO4beI
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 16:41:20 +0000