Luke 1-9: Part 1: Serving in Home Territory
By Ada Lum
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Ada Lum
Lum teaches at the Bible Institute of Hawaii. Though retired as a staff member with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students, she still visits various countries to do Bible study training. Her other books include Jesus the Disciplemaker and How to Begin an Evangelistic Bible Study.
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Luke 1-9 - Ada Lum
LUKE
New Hope, New Joy
26 STUDIES FOR INDIVIDUALS OR GROUPS
Part 1: Serving in Home Territory
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Contents
GETTING THE MOST OUT OF LUKE
PART 1: SERVING IN HOME TERRITORY
LUKE 1-9
Leader's Notes
About the Author
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Getting the Most Out of Luke
As kids, when we said, I hope so,
we would cross our fingers or knock on wood, as though the outcome depended on luck. That is our human dilemma. We have an instinct that life can be better than it is in the present. We hope and work for that goal. But there lurks within us a feeling that maybe it isn’t going to happen. Security and happiness seem like morning mists.
Scripture tells us that hope does not have to be an illusion. It is God’s pure intent that we should be secure and happy. The problem is that we work for it in our limited ways instead of living and working with God in his liberating ways.
Time and again I’ve seen that people discover new hope and new joy as they personally relate to the real Jesus of the Gospels.
An Interview with Dr. Luke
The following imaginary interview of Luke, the writer, by Lydia, a merchant of Philippi, is based on Acts 16:6-40; 20:5—28:31 (the we
passages where the writer of Acts includes himself in Paul the apostle’s missionary team); Colossians 4:14; 2 Timothy 4:11 and Philemon 24.
Ms. Lydia: Congratulations on the publication of your Gospel, Dr. Luke! The first thing our Philippian church observed was its length—just about twice Mark’s Gospel. You fill up the curiosity gaps in his account of Jesus’ life, like Jesus’ birth and childhood and that third-year trip to Jerusalem in chapters 9 to 19. Were you familiar with Mark’s Gospel when you wrote yours?
Dr. Luke: Oh yes. Mark was a great help in my research. He wrote for Romans, and you know how they like fast-moving action, not too much abstract teaching. I wrote for Theophilus and his friends. Some are high-ranking government officials who are new or not-yet believers. They want to see the big picture, lots of concrete evidence, human relevance. By the way, that’s why in both my Gospel and the book of Acts, I include prominent people who were attracted to Jesus. My friends can identify with them in one way or another.
Ms. Lydia: We Philippians appreciate your including many foreigners, social outcasts and unique women. It’s clever how you begin your Gospel with a couple (1:5-25) and end with another couple (24:13-35). And we love your humor that pops up every now and then, for instance, in the Zacchaeus story (19:1-10).
Dr. Luke: Humor? Ah, yes. Jesus’ pleasant sense of the unexpected rubbed off on me. Peter and the other disciples used to recount funny stories Jesus told in their evening relaxation. They also would point out in his teachings how he described human nature with a knowing twinkle in his eyes. And children loved him! He knew how to be playful with them.
Ms. Lydia: You amaze me. You’re the only one of the Gospel writers who did not meet Jesus in the flesh. Yet he seems so personally real to you.
Dr. Luke: Initially I was first intrigued with Jesus as the ideal Philosopher King that our Greek philosophers have been searching for. But the longer I researched his history, the more I met men and women who had personally known him and were transformed by him. I also met people who never met him physically but were also transformed! Could Jesus be more than an ideal man?
Ms. Lydia: When did you begin such thorough research about Jesus?
Dr. Luke: Just before I met you women in your