Prayer: Help me to keep my eye on the ball, Lord.
Reading: Luke 20:27-38 (Click to read text) Stop and GROW: After reading the text, discuss/ponder the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Book of Faith questions, which are part of Camp Mount Luther's GROW Time with campers. QUESTION 1: What scares, confuses, challenges, or doesn’t make sense to me in this text? QUESTION 2: What delights me in this text or is my favorite part of the story? QUESTION 3: What stories or memories does this text stir in me? QUESTION 4: What is God up to in this text? Reflection: Who cares? Every time I read this conversation I ask, who cares? Who cares whose wife she will be in the resurrection? Obviously, some Sadducees did. Actually, they didn’t believe in resurrection, but they asked this question hoping Jesus would say something dumb. Nevertheless, by asking the question they were tied up in what I call minutia. Sometimes we, too, get caught up in unimportant trivia when it comes to our faith and God. We ask and wonder about stuff that doesn’t really matter. We lose sight of the real issue. Here it is: He is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all of them are alive. --Jim Bricker
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