Luke 16:1-13 – Drew Downs

On Not Reading it Wrong — choosing God over money

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Some of Jesus’s parables can be confusing to modern readers, expecting something that looks like God rather than the opposition.

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The parable of the dishonest manager invites us to think about our own behavior for sure. But it is just as much about our community.

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The parable in Luke 16 is confounding. If we think Jesus is saying something different from what he normally says.

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In this week’s gospel, Jesus tells a parable about a rich man who is going to fire a manager. Of course there’s more to it.

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In Jesus’s teaching for Proper 20C, we get a vision of complexity that leads to clarity. It isn’t one or the other.

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The challenge of doing “right” is not so much in knowing, but in dealing with the sense of many rights. And which is most “good.”