Tuesday July 1st :: Lk. 7 :: Experts?

Luke 7.29-30

29 All the people, even the tax collectors, when they heard Jesus' words, acknowledged that God's way was right…. 30 But the Pharisees and the experts in the law rejected God's purpose for themselves…


Here’s some food for thought:

According to this passage, a first-century con-man (tax-collector) had a better chance of accepting Jesus than did an 'EXPERT' in Biblical interpretation. Luke says that while even the tax-collectors (swindlers by any historical estimate) were flocking to Jesus, the ‘religious types’ (Pharisees / experts in the Law) were rejecting him.

This seems to be true throughout the gospels. And not surprisingly passages like this one lie at the heart of our commitment to live as ‘non-religious’ followers of Jesus.

But here’s a question for you:
Why do you think the EXPERTS rejected Jesus?
In other words, why did Jesus not sit well with ‘religious’ types?

And more importantly:
What should this teach us?


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