Welcome to our Luther Memorial blog. This is brand new and very much a work in progress, so be patient as I get it set up and organized. I will post calendar items and news items for Luther Memorial, as well as sermons and other items over the coming weeks and months. Also links to various church related web sites. This blog is going to be primarily for new and prospective church members, but current and long time church members could also benefit from it. So hang in there as I get things posted and get the format the way I want it. I have to do all this in the middle of being a full time pastor and also managing the blogs for Salem Lutheran Church.
May we all go in peace and serve the Lord,
Pr. J
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For two Sundays a reference has been made to people "tearning their clothes". What is the significance or menaning of this?
ReplyDeleteIf by "tearning their clothes" you mean the references in 2 Kings 5:7 and 2 Kings 2:12 then those are refering to an act of grief and/or mourning.
ReplyDeleteIn the case of Elisha it is mourning; Elijah has been taken from him.
In the case of the king of Israel (who is presumably King Jehoram [2 Kings 3:1]) in 2 Kings 5, it is a matter of grief and frustration that a neighboring king has given him a seemingly impossible task: cure Naaman of leprosy. Here the situation is a bit more complicated than Elisha's in 2 Kings 2. Naaman was a former and potentially future enemy general who had defeated israel in the past at Ramoth-gilead [1 Kings 22:10-23]. The political situation was touchy. Jehoram would not only see this as a request for a miracle which he knew he could not perform, he would probably see it also as a pretext for another war once he failed to deliver. Plenty of cause for tearing his clothes!