Bible study with Pastor Rebecca

Plan to meet together with Pastor Rebecca at 9 a.m. on Sunday at ASM, as we look more closely at the day’s assigned Gospel passage.  She will draw from the aid and writings of a teacher within our church who has written this introductory comment on the upcoming Sunday’s reading.  He is The Rev. Francisco García,  a Ph.D. Candidate in Theological Studies, Ethics and Action at Vanderbilt University in the Graduate Department of Religion, and a Graduate Research Fellow at the Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice at Vanderbilt Divinity School.

Join us on Sunday, Oct. 2 at 9 a.m. - Luke 17: 11-19

Listening to the faith of the borderland. The fact that a Samaritan participates in God’s healing justice, offering praise to God and gratitude to Jesus should not surprise us. As this story challenged people in Luke’s time to expand their understanding of who is worthy, who has access to God, and who can claim healing in the name of God, it should also challenge us to think outside of the norms of our dominant contexts.