What's your qualification for someone to be intimate with God?
Right now in the church, there are a lot of empty seats at the table, and we face a similar question to the religious leaders of Jesus' day: who will be welcome at the communion table?
Is it the people we see in the picture - or is it the ones on the outside?
Who's missing here?
If you feel like an outsider, and especially if the idea of hell has been used against you, I think you will find this upcoming deep-dive study to be very rewarding!
The following video is an academic-style presentation of my research on the literary, rhetorical, poetic, historical, and cultural themes that give meaning to Jesus’ parable of the Rich Man & Lazarus.
Although this passage is often cited as “evidence” for a literal hell, our analysis will reveal a more important theme that was present for the author and the audience of the book of Luke: Who Gets to Take Communion?
https://youtube.com/live/R-rySFJZBWA?feature=share
Subscribers click below for the full Exegesis Essay - including all kinds of delicious footnotes and resources 😋
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