ASIN: B07RLHT41X
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 163
Each Gospel in the New Testament aims to accomplish something unique.Matthew: to show Jesus as the Jewish Messiah and the fulfillment of every promise.Mark: to get every person swept up into the drama of God’s coming kingdom.John: to convey the scandalous love of a relentless God.Luke has a different approach. Rather than simply learn about Jesus through his book, Luke wants his readers to develop a skill. A habit. Whereas Matthew, Mark, and John write to get us to see Jesus, Luke writes to get us to see as Jesus sees.The subtle difference is a cosmic shift when played out in reality. Luke’s Gospel is less of a textbook to be studied and more of an invitation to be accepted. Therefore, we might say his purpose is the following.Luke: to magnify the minority, as Jesus does.There’s a modern analogy which I think parallels what Luke was trying to accomplish all those centuries ago when the ...
