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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. ...