Read Debie Thomas' incisive "The Great Chasm" for her thoughts on the matter. Why is there, and who is responsible for "the great chasm?" What can be done about it? How can we see as Jesus sees? What is involved in seeing as Jesus sees?
Saturday, September 28, 2019
The Great Chasm
Scripture: Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15 and Psalm 91:1-6, 14-16 • Amos 6:1a, 4-7 and Psalm 146 • 1 Timothy 6:6-19 • Luke 16:19-31
In this Sunday's Scripture, the prophet Amos and Paul's first letter to Timothy warns us of the dangers of the inequitable gap between the lives of the rich and the poor, and that money is the root of all evil. This follows last week's lesson where Jesus tells his disciples that you cannot serve both God and wealth. But in Jesus' parable of the rich man and Lazarus, and the great chasm between the two in the afterlife, is the parable really just another parable about money or wealth?
Read Debie Thomas' incisive "The Great Chasm" for her thoughts on the matter. Why is there, and who is responsible for "the great chasm?" What can be done about it? How can we see as Jesus sees? What is involved in seeing as Jesus sees?
Read Debie Thomas' incisive "The Great Chasm" for her thoughts on the matter. Why is there, and who is responsible for "the great chasm?" What can be done about it? How can we see as Jesus sees? What is involved in seeing as Jesus sees?
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