Luke 17:11-19
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This is a section I cut out of this week’s sermon comparing the two main responses to COVID with what Jesus does in healing the lepers.
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The story of Jesus healing the ten suffering leprosy is a story about borders and boundaries and the way Jesus defies them all for love.
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This week’s gospel takes Jesus into the space between, the place to which neighbors cast out neighbors to punish and forget them.
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Jesus challenges our expectations of community, of borders, and how we treat those around us. Regardless of where they come from.
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In healing ten people with leprosy in the borderlands between Samaria and Galilee, Jesus offers us a way to see life anew.
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In this evocative story from the midst of the borderlands, Jesus places himself as a border-crosser and boundary-breaker.