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A conversation and study of how ELCA Lutherans understand human sexuality, both in the Bible, and in the 2009 Social Statements on Human Sexuality. Part two of four classes, this session focuses on some of the teachings of the new testament, showing the turn from Jesus and Paul to the harsh legalism of the Deutero-Pauline Epistles (ones with Paul's name but not written by Paul) and the Pastoral Epistles.
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Learning to love Jesus without checking your brain at the door. Week 6 is going to continue our discussion of being an active, critical thinker in tandem with having a deep relationship with one's faith. This week will start a little sub-series of "Being an Un-Fundamentalist Christian" with "Things Jesus Didn't Say", looking at some popular beliefs about Jesus that are not actually in the Bible. This week it's about the teaching, popular among so many "prosperity Gospel" preachers that God wants people to be rich. In fact, Jesus is so consistently critical of wealth itself, not just its use, that you have to both turn his words into pure "spiritualized metaphor" and put new ones in his mouth. How did we get from a wandering, poor, working class country boy, prophet to a tool for individual material gain?
LIvestreamed February 17, 2022 by Pastor Lars Hammar of Lord of Grace Lutheran Church in Marana, Arizona.
Learning to love Jesus without checking your brain at the door. Week 5 is going to continue our discussion of being an active, critical thinker in tandem with having a deep relationship with one's faith. This week will start a little sub-series of "Being an Un-Fundamentalist Christian" with "Things Jesus Didn't Say", looking at some popular beliefs about Jesus that are not actually in the Bible. This week it's about the belief that Jesus would condone making people starve to death if they aren't able to find work. The quote "Anyone unwilling to work should not eat" is actually not from Jesus, but is taken from 2 Thessalonians 3:10, and is not even written by the Apostle Paul, but by an unknown writer under Paul's name. We'll explore the context of that particular verse, and contrast it with what we know of Jesus' own actions and teachings around food and hunger.
Livestreamed February 10, 2002 by Pastor Lars Hammar of Lord of Grace Lutheran Church in Marana, Arizona.
