June 29, 2025

Out Lectionary Readings for this Sunday are 2 Kings 2:1-2, 6-14; Psalm 16; Galatians 5:1, 13-25; Luke 9:51-62.

New Testament scholar Charles Cousar has a word of caution for those who would speak Paul's message of Christian liberty in Galatians 5:

"Here the preacher and teacher need to move with great care, for the word 'freedom' has connotations in contemporary North America that it surely did not have for Paul. The thesaurus identifies freedom with autonomy, independence, and sovereignty--in other words, with freedom to 'do as I please.' But such concepts Paul would not include in freedom, at least not in Christian freedom."

We will share together in the Observance of Holy Communion the first Sunday of July, July 6.