Bible Text: Luke 5:12-26
What if following Jesus is less to do with the places to which he leads us, and more to do with the people he joins us to on the way?
Paul considers this question as he unpacks for us Jesus encounter with a man with leprosy, a paralysed man, and another group of marginalised figures we might easily have missed...
References:
Homeboy Industries (homeboyindustries.org) and ex-gang member Jose Osuna: “When you walk through those doors, they don’t look at you like you’re damaged goods. They see the potential, and they love you until you can love yourself.”
Rowan Williams, Being Disciples
Candida Moss, God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible