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Religious Identities: Between Text And Sermon By Sue Lowcock Harris

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The journal article that I found through OhioLINK on the significance of Deuteronomy 6:4 is titled “Between Text and Sermon” by Sue Lowcock Harris. Sue Lowcock Harris is the co-pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Howard County. In her article on Deuteronomy 6:4-9, she presents the different approaches to preaching Deuteronomy 6.
“A convenient path for the Christian preacher is to marry Deut. 6:4-9 to Mark 12:28-34. Deuteronomy 6:4-9 serves as context for Jesus’s conversation with a seeker, during which he quotes it and references commands in Leviticus 19 to love fellow Israelites and love aliens because the Lord, is our God. There many good reasons to take this approach to the sermon: to enhance the overall biblical literacy of the congregation; to take the opportunity to focus on the core of Jesus’s teaching; to consider how love for God is linked to love for neighbor/stranger … and empower us as Christians” (Harris, 2016, p. 329). …show more content…

L. Harris points out the debate this text encounters as seen in the different commentaries. The discussion concerns the nature of God and what the text means, “The Lord our God, the Lord is one.” She asks the question, “What does it mean for us to say, today, that God is one? Does this mean “the one and only,” that this God we worship, who is known in the story of the people of Israel, is the singular, unique divine disclosure in the universe? … Or is God’s oneness a statement about God’s unity and clarity, that whenever and wherever we encounter divine presence, we are encountering the same, undivided presence.” (Harris, 2016, p.

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