Spiritual Practices of Jesus: Learning Simplicity, Humility, and Prayer with Luke's Earliest Readers

Luke's Gospel was written to transform. In its original context, readers would have seen a portrait of Jesus as an ideal teacher and king, able to shape his people through exemplary leadership. They would have come to the Gospel expecting to be changed for God's purposes through the imitation of Jesus' lifestyle and adoption of his teaching. When today's readers approach the text in the same way, they can be transformed too.

Spiritual Practices of Jesus explores Luke's portrait of the spirit...