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Spiritual Practices of Jesus: Learning Simplicity, Humility, and Prayer with Luke’s Earliest Readers is unavailable, but you can change that!

Luke’s Gospel was written to transform. In its original context, readers would have seen a portrait of Jesus as an ideal teacher and king, able to shape his people through exemplary leadership. They would have come to the Gospel expecting to be changed for God’s purposes through the lifestyle and teaching of Christ. When today’s readers approach the text in the same way, they can be transformed...

model of prayer, who teaches out of his own lifestyle of prayer. The message to the church is obvious: if prayer fuels the entire work of God in Luke’s Gospel, how can we fail to imitate Jesus’ example of prayer? For Luke, the focus of prayer is on God’s kingdom. Jesus’ disciples are to pray for God’s rule and reign, a prayer that includes them in God’s kingdom purposes as well. Prayer is less about presenting a list of personal wishes to God and more about coming to understand what God is doing
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