SHOW NOTES -  6/9/2013

Intro Music: Fanfare for Rocky (in honor of Robb's 10 mile run!)

Introduction: Episode 17 - Proper 5C / Ordinary 10C / Pentecost +3

1 Kings 17:8-24

Luke 7:11-17

Check-in

• Soldier Field 10 - how did it go?
  
  

Primary Scripture -– Luke 7:11-17 - Jesus heals the widow’s son in Nain

• About caring for the widow, not about healing the son
  
  

• • Caring for widows is a sign of holiness (e.g., Isa. 1:17, 23; Jer. 7:6; Ezek. 22:7; Zech. 7:10).
    
    
  • Touching the dead- unclean - more unclean to let a widow suffer
    
    
  • Blessed are those who mourn
    
    
• compassion and healing unrelated to sin (1 Kings 17:18)
  
  
• • compassion can be risky - requires vulnerability
    
    
  • the word for compassion  “splagchnizomai” (say that 5 five fast) only appears two other intimes in the Gospel of Luke
    
    
  • • 10:33 - Good Samaritan - Samaritan has “compassion” on the beaten man
      
      
    • 15:20 - Prodigal Son (Father) - Father has compassion for the prodigal Son
      
      
    • Pre-emptive compassion
      
      

Secondary scripture: 1 Kings 17:8-24- Elijah and the Widow of Zarephath

• Two themes: Stewardship - giving to others first not last
  
  

• • Healing - about the widow - not the son- a lot like the story from Luke
    
    
• Stewardship - do we give from the first or from the last?
  
  
• • Gospel of Abundance vs Gospel of scarcity
    
    
  • How do we practice abundance?
    
    
  • • as individuals
      
      
    • as the church
      
      
    • • Abundance leads to community - united Elijah with the widow and her son (vs. 15)
        
        
      • Prosperity Gospel concerns - God’s lotto
        
        
• Healing
  
  
• • Hope in the midst of hopelessness
    
    
  • Elijah - God killed my son
    
    
  • Jesus - Compassion
    
    
  • Not about who did it, about compassion in the midst of suffering
    
    
  • • not about the why, about the response - compassion
      
      
  • Differences:
    
    
  • • Elijah talks with the woman - Jesus doesn’t talk to the woman
      
      
    • Woman does not ask for healing
      
      

Closing

TY: Opening music, Dick Dale and the Deltones, “Misirlou”

TY: Closing music,Paul and Storm, “Oh No”

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