Luke 9:1-17Exodus 16: 1-5Stages of Grief:-Denial-Anger-Bargaining-Depression-Acceptance and HopeBetween The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Luke 9:1-17Exodus 16: 1-5Stages of Grief:-Denial-Anger-Bargaining-Depression-Acceptance and HopeBetween The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

•Luke 8 :26-39•“In this, the most dramatic exorcism in the Gospel, Jesus puts an end to the efforts by the demon to “name” him, by turning the tables. The term Legion had only one meaning in Luke’s social world: a division of Roman soldiers. Alerted by this clue, we discover that the rest of the story is filled with military imagery. The term used for “herd” is inappropriate for pigs, who do not travel in herds – often was used to refer to a band of military recruits. Also, the phrase “he dismissed them” connotes a military command, and the pigs’ charge into the lake suggests troops rushing into battle.”“The tension between his hatred for his oppressors and the necessity to repress this hatred in order to avoid dire recrimination drove him mad…He retreated to an inner world where he could symbolically resist Roman domination…Jesus’ disruption of the prevailing accommodation…brought the mans’ and the neighborhoods’ hatred for the Romans out in the open, where the result could be disaster for the community.” - Frantz Fanon (social psychologist)•“Given the odds against political liberation from the might of Rome, the reader was bound to be unable to believe liberation was possible. Luke thus reassures the audience in no uncertain terms that the healed man was none other than “the very man who had been oppressed by the legion.” Luke will issue a similar reassurance when he speaks again of a symbol of the overwhelming power of the dominant order being “cast into the sea”. In Luke’s narrative these exorcisms represent Jesus’ inaugural challenge to the powers. Put in military terminology, they signal the decisive breach in the defenses of the symbolic fortress of Roman Israel. The political and ideological authority of both the religious establishment and the Roman military garrison – the two central element within the colonial condominium – have been countered. The narrative space has been cleared for the kingdom ministry to commence in full, both to the Jew and to the Gentile.” – Ched Myers•What is death?Anything that produces or sustains separation from GodAnything that prevents and stands opposed to human flourishingAnything that perverts justice – or the setting of things to rightsAnything that opposes human freedom and equality and God’s commonwealth of abundanceAnything that kills, steals and destroysThis is death.•Colossians 2 :14-15•Ephesians 2 :1-6

•Luke 8 :26-39•“In this, the most dramatic exorcism in the Gospel, Jesus puts an end to the efforts by the demon to “name” him, by turning the tables. The term Legion had only one meaning in Luke’s social world: a division of Roman soldiers. Alerted by this clue, we discover that the rest of the story is filled with military imagery. The term used for “herd” is inappropriate for pigs, who do not travel in herds – often was used to refer to a band of military recruits. Also, the phrase “he dismissed them” connotes a military command, and the pigs’ charge into the lake suggests troops rushing into battle.”“The tension between his hatred for his oppressors and the necessity to repress this hatred in order to avoid dire recrimination drove him mad…He retreated to an inner world where he could symbolically resist Roman domination…Jesus’ disruption of the prevailing accommodation…brought the mans’ and the neighborhoods’ hatred for the Romans out in the open, where the result could be disaster for the community.” - Frantz Fanon (social psychologist)•“Given the odds against political liberation from the might of Rome, the reader was bound to be unable to believe liberation was possible. Luke thus reassures the audience in no uncertain terms that the healed man was none other than “the very man who had been oppressed by the legion.” Luke will issue a similar reassurance when he speaks again of a symbol of the overwhelming power of the dominant order being “cast into the sea”. In Luke’s narrative these exorcisms represent Jesus’ inaugural challenge to the powers. Put in military terminology, they signal the decisive breach in the defenses of the symbolic fortress of Roman Israel. The political and ideological authority of both the religious establishment and the Roman military garrison – the two central element within the colonial condominium – have been countered. The narrative space has been cleared for the kingdom ministry to commence in full, both to the Jew and to the Gentile.” – Ched Myers•What is death?Anything that produces or sustains separation from GodAnything that prevents and stands opposed to human flourishingAnything that perverts justice – or the setting of things to rightsAnything that opposes human freedom and equality and God’s commonwealth of abundanceAnything that kills, steals and destroysThis is death.•Colossians 2 :14-15•Ephesians 2 :1-6

•Luke 8 :26-39•“In this, the most dramatic exorcism in the Gospel, Jesus puts an end to the efforts by the demon to “name” him, by turning the tables. The term Legion had only one meaning in Luke’s social world: a division of Roman soldiers. Alerted by this clue, we discover that the rest of the story is filled with military imagery. The term used for “herd” is inappropriate for pigs, who do not travel in herds – often was used to refer to a band of military recruits. Also, the phrase “he dismissed them” connotes a military command, and the pigs’ charge into the lake suggests troops rushing into battle.”“The tension between his hatred for his oppressors and the necessity to repress this hatred in order to avoid dire recrimination drove him mad…He retreated to an inner world where he could symbolically resist Roman domination…Jesus’ disruption of the prevailing accommodation…brought the mans’ and the neighborhoods’ hatred for the Romans out in the open, where the result could be disaster for the community.” - Frantz Fanon (social psychologist)•“Given the odds against political liberation from the might of Rome, the reader was bound to be unable to believe liberation was possible. Luke thus reassures the audience in no uncertain terms that the healed man was none other than “the very man who had been oppressed by the legion.” Luke will issue a similar reassurance when he speaks again of a symbol of the overwhelming power of the dominant order being “cast into the sea”. In Luke’s narrative these exorcisms represent Jesus’ inaugural challenge to the powers. Put in military terminology, they signal the decisive breach in the defenses of the symbolic fortress of Roman Israel. The political and ideological authority of both the religious establishment and the Roman military garrison – the two central element within the colonial condominium – have been countered. The narrative space has been cleared for the kingdom ministry to commence in full, both to the Jew and to the Gentile.” – Ched Myers•What is death?Anything that produces or sustains separation from GodAnything that prevents and stands opposed to human flourishingAnything that perverts justice – or the setting of things to rightsAnything that opposes human freedom and equality and God’s commonwealth of abundanceAnything that kills, steals and destroysThis is death.•Colossians 2 :14-15•Ephesians 2 :1-6

•Luke 8 :26-39•“In this, the most dramatic exorcism in the Gospel, Jesus puts an end to the efforts by the demon to “name” him, by turning the tables. The term Legion had only one meaning in Luke’s social world: a division of Roman soldiers. Alerted by this clue, we discover that the rest of the story is filled with military imagery. The term used for “herd” is inappropriate for pigs, who do not travel in herds – often was used to refer to a band of military recruits. Also, the phrase “he dismissed them” connotes a military command, and the pigs’ charge into the lake suggests troops rushing into battle.”“The tension between his hatred for his oppressors and the necessity to repress this hatred in order to avoid dire recrimination drove him mad…He retreated to an inner world where he could symbolically resist Roman domination…Jesus’ disruption of the prevailing accommodation…brought the mans’ and the neighborhoods’ hatred for the Romans out in the open, where the result could be disaster for the community.” - Frantz Fanon (social psychologist)•“Given the odds against political liberation from the might of Rome, the reader was bound to be unable to believe liberation was possible. Luke thus reassures the audience in no uncertain terms that the healed man was none other than “the very man who had been oppressed by the legion.” Luke will issue a similar reassurance when he speaks again of a symbol of the overwhelming power of the dominant order being “cast into the sea”. In Luke’s narrative these exorcisms represent Jesus’ inaugural challenge to the powers. Put in military terminology, they signal the decisive breach in the defenses of the symbolic fortress of Roman Israel. The political and ideological authority of both the religious establishment and the Roman military garrison – the two central element within the colonial condominium – have been countered. The narrative space has been cleared for the kingdom ministry to commence in full, both to the Jew and to the Gentile.” – Ched Myers•What is death?Anything that produces or sustains separation from GodAnything that prevents and stands opposed to human flourishingAnything that perverts justice – or the setting of things to rightsAnything that opposes human freedom and equality and God’s commonwealth of abundanceAnything that kills, steals and destroysThis is death.•Colossians 2 :14-15•Ephesians 2 :1-6

Luke 8:19-21Galatians 3:26-291 Timothy 5: 1-21 Corinthians 6:19Ephesians 2: 19-22Psalm 27:10

Luke 8:19-21Galatians 3:26-291 Timothy 5: 1-21 Corinthians 6:19Ephesians 2: 19-22Psalm 27:10

Luke 8:19-21Galatians 3:26-291 Timothy 5: 1-21 Corinthians 6:19Ephesians 2: 19-22Psalm 27:10

Luke 8:19-21Galatians 3:26-291 Timothy 5: 1-21 Corinthians 6:19Ephesians 2: 19-22Psalm 27:10