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Travis Scholl (MDiv, Yale Divinity School; PhD, University of Missouri) leads mission integration at Lutheran Senior Services. Previously, he served as managing editor of theological publications at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, where he continues as a guest instructor. He is the author of Walking the Labyrinth.
Certainly, Jesus’ parable provides a dire warning for where, not wealth, per se, but obsession with it, will lead.
The reign of God in Christ compels us to pray for all in authority, while at the same time our praying for them calls into the question all the idolatries that arise from the exercise of this authority.
This is why Paul is still an “example” for us. If this is what God in Christ can do with “a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a man of violence," imagine what God in Christ can do with you and me.
By faith in Christ, the curse is lifted now. In hope, we wait for the curse to be lifted forever.
What you are doing for your hearers is sparking their imagination to live in, to dwell in, the images you are conjuring in their mind’s eye.
The vision orients our faith to the future, but it directs us in such a way that it provides deep comfort and hope in the present.
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