In the Breaking of the Bread
In the middle of this story is a GLARING and life threatening spiritual problem faced by all people, by both nonreligious and secular people… AND by… spiritual and religious people …We ALL have a constant tendency to seriously misread the Bible. It’s like our default mode for reading the Bible is all wrong…We’ve very prone to get the wrong idea…a failure to get out of the Bible what God intends for us.
What Jesus Christ gives in these episodes is a kind of interpretive key for understanding and for actually benefitting from the Bible… And if we can get it, or at least start getting it, it can ignite our spiritual lives, free us from superstition and fill us with purpose and a real sense of mission.
Let’s look at: 1) Getting CONFUSED 2) Getting CONCENTRATED 3) Getting KINDLED

