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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...

distasteful to those struggling to meet daily needs. The wealthy were expected to engage in benefactions,27 but this landowner’s wealth comes at the cost of those around him. His primary orientation is money, but he is not “rich toward God,” meaning that he is stingy with both his resources (Lk 14:33) and himself (Lk 9:23) and has thereby excluded himself from the kingdom.28 If we are to have the characteristics of God, our primary orientation must be toward God’s kingdom, clearly evident in both
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