Tag: Amos 5:18-24
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Getting Unconfused About Justice, and Grace
Clean up, clean up,Everybody, everywhere!Clean up, clean upEverybody do your share! Daycare song Any three year old knows the difference between justice and injustice. We have to get older, better educated, more experienced, and more deeply invested in the profit sharing program, to get to the place where we think chronic, obvious injustice in the…
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Questions for Reflection and Discussion – Amos 5 18-24
We are studying Amos 5:18-24 for Sunday, March 1 – one of the most memorable of Amos’s short prophetic speeches. [Some notes on the text are here.] Here are some questions we might want to consider or discuss in class: Who is speaking in vv18-20? Who is speaking in vv21-24? Why do we think this?…
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Study Notes – Amos 5 18-24
We are studying Amos 5:18-24 for Sunday, March 1 – the first Sunday in Lent, so this pointed repudiation of ritual worship unaccompanied by substantive change in one’s manner of living, this pointed insistence that justice and righteousness is the real worship, is timely. [Some questions on the text are here.] Here are a few…
Matters of Interpretation 