Series: Wide Awake
Title: Communal Consciousness
Text: Luke 5.27-32
Summary: Cultivating authentic community is already difficult in homogeneous settings, but it is exponentially more difficult in multiethnic, economically diverse communities. One of the greatest barriers (in the negative), and opportunities (in the positive) comes from developing a communal consciousness. Using this parable from Jesus, we see that repentance has less to do with good/bad deeds, and more to do with seeing sin in terms of sick/healthy
