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Imitating God, not humanity
Prayer
Contemporary Lectionary Prayers
Based Upon Cycle C Lectionary Gospels
Gospel Theme:
Imitating God, not humanity
Gospel Note:
This selection of the ''Sermon on the Plain'' provides Luke's version of Jesus' ethical injunctions. The key to the passage is in vv. 35 and 36, which indicate that what underlies all of the preceding ''ethics of reversal'' is an ''ethics of imitation'': we are to do the opposite of what wrongdoers do to us precisely because in so doing we imitate God's kindness and mercy.
Liturgical Color:
Green
Suggested Hymns:
Oh, Love, How Deep
Imitating God, not humanity
Gospel Note:
This selection of the ''Sermon on the Plain'' provides Luke's version of Jesus' ethical injunctions. The key to the passage is in vv. 35 and 36, which indicate that what underlies all of the preceding ''ethics of reversal'' is an ''ethics of imitation'': we are to do the opposite of what wrongdoers do to us precisely because in so doing we imitate God's kindness and mercy.
Liturgical Color:
Green
Suggested Hymns:
Oh, Love, How Deep
