PRE-CLASS ASSIGNMENT #1
In describing the social context of Jesus through Thurman’s eyes, I must first go back to my being in business for many years. A boldness within me emerged in my later years. The boldness came from success and my knowing that my business had made a very real shift. The shift was in security. Call it the comfort which comes from financial success. My livelihood no longer rested on every sale. Just like the man in a card game that is dealt all aces never asks for a re-deal but does wish for the game to continue, there becomes a quiet confidence in any person in which success does provides a “fall back” plan. This is the whole promise of my Insurance Agent career. I would get compensated for renewals so the pressure with each news sale was now off. Thurman …show more content…
Martin Luther King Jr. There was only a fall back system for them in the beginning that was an eternal boldness and drive. This type of boldness eludes most people and knowing where you’re from and not allowing it to determine who you are, or will be, takes this kind of boldness. I have often wondered why Jesus was not in an elite social class? Just because He spoke “as one with authority”(Matt.7:29), we can easily forget that Nazareth was on the fringes, perhaps further in the camp of the disinherited than we realize. Nathaniel picked up on it when he asked about Jesus’ home place, “Nazareth, can anything good come from there?”(Gospel of John, 1:46a) I have always heard that a person cannot give what they do not have. If this is true, and if God’s nature really is to run to the weak, the oppressed, and the hurting than one can make the case, as Thurman has done, that Nazareth was by total design. Thurman also mentions repeatedly that Jesus was a Jew. This too was by total design. The Jews were A marginalized people from a marginalized area. A shined up, elite Jesus who carries a sword of protectionism just doesn’t line up if God really does run to the oppressed and weak. Jesus was and
In describing the social context of Jesus through Thurman’s eyes, I must first go back to my being in business for many years. A boldness within me emerged in my later years. The boldness came from success and my knowing that my business had made a very real shift. The shift was in security. Call it the comfort which comes from financial success. My livelihood no longer rested on every sale. Just like the man in a card game that is dealt all aces never asks for a re-deal but does wish for the game to continue, there becomes a quiet confidence in any person in which success does provides a “fall back” plan. This is the whole promise of my Insurance Agent career. I would get compensated for renewals so the pressure with each news sale was now off. Thurman …show more content…
Martin Luther King Jr. There was only a fall back system for them in the beginning that was an eternal boldness and drive. This type of boldness eludes most people and knowing where you’re from and not allowing it to determine who you are, or will be, takes this kind of boldness. I have often wondered why Jesus was not in an elite social class? Just because He spoke “as one with authority”(Matt.7:29), we can easily forget that Nazareth was on the fringes, perhaps further in the camp of the disinherited than we realize. Nathaniel picked up on it when he asked about Jesus’ home place, “Nazareth, can anything good come from there?”(Gospel of John, 1:46a) I have always heard that a person cannot give what they do not have. If this is true, and if God’s nature really is to run to the weak, the oppressed, and the hurting than one can make the case, as Thurman has done, that Nazareth was by total design. Thurman also mentions repeatedly that Jesus was a Jew. This too was by total design. The Jews were A marginalized people from a marginalized area. A shined up, elite Jesus who carries a sword of protectionism just doesn’t line up if God really does run to the oppressed and weak. Jesus was and