No Respect in His Hometown – January 30, 2022

Scripture: Luke 4: 21-30

Beginning on such a positive note, the people in Jesus’ hometown don’t like the challenges he issues in the synagogue. We discover from this episode that God’s truth may come in ways that we choose not to accept. How often does our familiarity with an advice-giver cause us to disallow that person’s suggestions out of hand? He or she can’t know as much, we think, as someone who’s grown up in a more exciting part of the world, encountered more exotic situations or been blessed with the ability to think more deeply than most.