Lent 3C
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When people ask Jesus for a hot take on a recent scandal, he interrogates their assumption that the victims brought it on themselves.
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The challenge Jesus offers us is to look past our assumptions about sin and tragedy and instead toward what we do to each other.
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The human tendency to blame, to punish, or assume the worst — to compare — is at the center of Jesus’s call to cut it out.
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Jesus challenges us to see beyond asking why things happen and toward what we are called to do in light of it.
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Sometimes we struggle with the gospel because the story we tell ourselves is so strong. And we forget it is there.
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This morning’s lectionary is full of conflict and confusion, but Paul and Jesus are both compelling us to see that we’re the ones creating it.