Exploring St Luke’s Gospel

For whom: this workshop, originally arranged as part of the LLM continuing ministerial development programme, is open to all who preach, clergy as well as Readers.

In Advent 2024 the church begins the final year of its three year cycle of readings with St Luke’s gospel providing the focus for the year. This workshop is being run over a morning, beginning with refreshments at 10.00am and moving to learning at 10.30am. A slightly shortened version of the learning is being presented online in the evening.

St Luke’s gospel is many people’s favourite gospel, and that reflects his skill as a storyteller, who is also more interested than the other gospel writers in the short stories Jesus tells. Famous and much loved parables like the story of the prodigal son and the good Samaritan only occur in Luke’s gospel. Luke also pays quite a lot attention to themes of money and possessions, shows us more of Jesus at prayer, and generally makes women more visible in his story. He is also, of course, the only gospel writer to write a sequel!

Doug Chaplin, Discipleship and Lay Training Officer, will reflect with those attending on Luke as someone seeking to preach on it over the coming year. This will include ways informed by recent trends in biblical criticism, and addressing the contexts in which we read scripture to inform our individual and corporate following of Jesus today. What are some of the emphases Luke brings to our relationship with Jesus that we can to draw out in our preaching through the coming year?

The workshop will have a mix of input and discussion, as we also share our own insights and experience with one another.

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