Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary: Year C, Volume 3
Overview
With this new lectionary commentary series, Westminster John Knox Press offers the most extensive resource for preaching on the market today. The twelve volumes of this series cover all the Sundays in the three-year lectionary cycle, along with movable occasions, such as Christmas Day, Epiphany, Holy Week, and All Saints’ Day. For each lectionary text, preachers will find four brief essays—one each on the theological, pastoral, exegetical, and homiletical challenges of the text. This gives preachers sixteen different approaches to the proclamation of the Word on any given occasion. The editors and contributors to this series are world-class scholars, pastors, and writers representing a variety of denominations and traditions. And while the twelve volumes of the series will follow the pattern of the Revised Common Lectionary, each volume will contain an index of biblical passages so that non-lectionary preachers, as well as teachers and students, may make use of its contents.
Top Highlights
“Partnership with Jesus in his mission will require rugged commitment. The disciples must learn how to respond to rejection and persecution. To be a Christ-follower is to walk the way of Jesus regardless of the outcome.” (Page 190)
“‘The nature of hospitality for which Jesus seeks,’ writes Green, ‘is realized in attending to one’s guest, yet Martha’s speech is centered on ‘me’ talk (3 times). Though she refers to Jesus as ‘Lord’ she is concerned to engage his assistance in her plans, not to learn from him.’2 When anxiety in well-doing becomes the measure of our hospitality, then the church has forgotten the One whom it has been gathered to serve. When Christ is proclaimed as instrumental to the church’s program, then the community has ceased to attend to the Word that first called it into being.” (Page 266)
“The swineherds are understandably afraid and, despite the miraculous healing, want Jesus to leave. From this standpoint, the story demonstrates that the coming of the gospel brings upheaval and sets in motion forces that will disrupt economic and social arrangements. The good news will not seem good to everyone. Sometimes disciples will need to ‘shake the dust off their feet,’ because their message will not be welcome (Luke 9:5; 10:11).” (Page 168)
“More importantly, Shavuot is the celebration of the giving of the Torah, in particular the Ten Commandments, from Sinai. Luke is likely making a parallel here: just as for Jews the exodus revelation signals the birth of the chosen people of God, for Christians the Pentecost narrative in Luke, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, signals the birth of the church.” (Pages 15–17)
- Title: Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary: Year C, Volume 3
- Authors: David L. Bartlett, Barbara Brown Taylor
- Series: Feasting on the Word
- Publisher: Westminster John Knox
- Print Publication Date: 2010
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Common lectionary (1992); Lectionary preaching
- Resource ID: LLS:FEASTWORDC03
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T08:21:43Z