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Our reading this week is from the gospel of Luke:<\/p>\n

\u201cDo not be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father\u2019s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions, and give alms. Make purses for yourselves that do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.<\/p>\n

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This is Part 1 of<\/strong> Bending Our World\u2019s Arc Toward Justice<\/b><\/p>\n

Be dressed for action and have your lamps lit; be like those who are waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that they may open the door for him as soon as he comes and knocks. Blessed are those slaves whom the master finds alert when he comes; truly I tell you, he will fasten his belt and have them sit down to eat, and he will come and serve them. If he comes during the middle of the night, or near dawn, and finds them so, blessed are those slaves.<\/p>\n

But know this: if the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour.\u201d (Luke 12:32-40, NRSV)<\/p>\n

Luke 12 is one of my favorite chapters in the gospels. It spells out how Luke understood Jesus\u2019 economic vision for a human society under the reign of God. It\u2019s a world where everyone has enough to thrive and no one is hoarding more than they need while others have needs that their community is not meeting. The original audiences would have thought of the Torah\u2019s stories of the ancient Israelites receiving enough manna each day in the wilderness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This passage begins with the pleasure of God in creating a society like this and inviting each of us into it. Then we encounter its economic foundation. People that have more than they need will sell their superfluous possessions\u2014in this context, farm lands stolen through predatory debt and default\u2014and give to those their economic system had plunged into poverty. The word the NRSV uses for what they should give is \u201calms.\u201d Alms used to mean money or food given to poor people. Jesus here is describing a community of resource-sharing, giving, and a commitment to making sure everyone is taken care of. It\u2019s a community founded on a more just distribution of the wealth that had been created by the unjust economic system they already had. There are striking parallels between that system and our own today. We\u2019ll being unpacking that in Part 2<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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