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This is Join the Journey with your host, Emma Daughter.

Thanks for joining. We're about to start the book of Luke, and I want to set us up to better understand

what we're reading. Luke's our third gospel to read, and as a reminder, the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke,

and John are selective, topical stories or narratives of Jesus Christ with a theological perspective.

Some people call them mosaics. Just as a mosaic is made up of little tiny squares that all come together to make one big picture, the gospel's complete, compliment, and confirm each other, helping us to more fully understand the story of Jesus, his life, death, burial, and resurrection. And that's the gospel. The good news of the life we can find in Christ is the

gospel, and Luke is one of the four gospels. For some of you, that might be new information, but for

others, it's maybe pretty familiar stuff. And even if it's familiar, it might be helpful to think

through how you'd teach that information to kids

or a new believer. How would you teach the difference between the Gospels and the gospel?

I'd encourage you to spend some time thinking about how you'd teach it later today, but right

now, we're in the Gospel of Luke. What do we need to know about Luke to have a better understanding

of everything we're going to read?

Luke, the author of this gospel, was a Gentile physician, a doctor who traveled with Paul.

Luke also wrote the book of Acts, so we'll spend some more time learning about him then.

But for right now, the book of Luke, it was written sometime between 65 and 68 AD, and it was

written to the Greeks. As a reminder, Matthew was written to the Jews, and in Matthew, we saw an

emphasis on Jesus as the fulfillment of the law, which makes sense because the Jews were very

familiar with the law. Mark was written to the Romans, and Mark's use of the word immediately

in tandem with the presentation of Jesus as the suffering servant, geniusly met the Romans in

their fast-paced culture, but challenged their understanding as to what the Messiah would be like.

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