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we don't know who we are instead The holy gospel according to St. Luke (10:25-42) ! It’s no easy thing to preach a parable this well known .   After all, you all already know the punchline . Don’t you? You know the answer to the question at the end of Jesus’ parable. And you know the right thing to do , too.   …Doesn’t it bother you, though, that on the lips of Jesus, this parable ends, not with an answer , but a question ? In 1518, Luther defended his burgeoning theological insights at a chapter meeting of his Augustinian order. In his presentation, now known as the Heidelberg Disputation, Luther said everything hinges on one distinction . The distinction between way we think God ought to work and the way God actually works.   And , by the way, there’s only one way God actually works in our lives. But the list of ways we think God ought to behave are endless . They’re religious and secular. Ethical and intellectual. Just take a look at the lawyer and Martha. ...

where we show a little mercy A sermon from Luke 10:25-42 : A lawyer stands up. Testing Jesus with a question he thinks already knows the answer to. “Teacher, What must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus tosses the question right back. “You seem like the kind of guy who got perfect attendance in Sunday School. I bet you know. What have you year in the Bible?” And like the know-it-all the guy is, he gives the textbook answer. Word for word…  Turning to leave, Jesus shrugs . “You obviously have your answer. Do that.” But not to be put off so easily, the lawyer asks his now infamous follow-up; “And who , exactly, is my neighbor?” And you know the rest, don’t you? Why, this parable is so popular, it even has laws named after it. You too figure you already know the moral, the point of this parable… But does it ever bother you? That disconnect between what happens here and the rest of your life? The way the moral, the point never actually carries over in...