What Does it Mean to Practically Take Up Your Cross?
Q: What does it mean to “take up your cross” as a person in Franklin, TN? Does this life somehow prepare us or allow us to practice for the next?
Q: Regarding the “lost sheep” and our Good Shepherd Who goes after even one: is that referring to unbelievers, or to someone who has strayed from the flock, and do they both “know His voice”?
Each parable in this passage is set against the pharisees and the scribes. The argument for this passage being about believers who have strayed is that the man in the story already ‘owned’ them. However, the context suggests that this is about unbelievers. We should be speaking to believers and unbelievers the same; sharing Christ and helping them understand.
Mentioned:
Luke 15:1-10, John 10:10
Charles Talbert Reading Luke: A Literary and Theological Commentary on the Third Gospel
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