Lesson 16 Flashcards
In Luke’s Gospel, Israel is restored when what type of people are welcomed into the community of Israel?
Outsiders
The Gentiles and Samaritans were a people who were outside the bounds of what?
The covenant of Israel
A parable is a teacher’s way of taking some unknown idea or concept and making it comprehensible using what?
Visible, everyday objects
In the incarnation, the unknown, invisible, intangible God was made known by what?
Ordinary human flesh
If someone wants to be lost and away from God, what will they have to do?
Be lost over God’s (literal) dead body
What is Jesus teaching in the parable of the lost coin?
Sometimes people can get lost inside the house of God—yet even there God will seek what is lost
The three parables in Luke 15 reveal that people can be lost in what two (2) places?
a) In the world
b) In the house (church)
To ask for one’s inheritance early was the same as doing what?
Wishing that your father was dead
The theme “without hindrance,” traced throughout Luke and Acts, finds its culmination in Paul’s ability to do what two (2) things?
a) Preach the gospel freely
b) Welcome the outsider into the house of God
In the parable of the two lost sons, the older brother is a metaphor for what?
The Jewish people who would not accept the Christian movement
