Humility Versus Humiliation

Changing Your Mind is a Gift

One of the tropes you’ll see on Youtube, or social media in general, these days is Student Embarrasses Professor. Or Commentator Destroys Opponent. We seem to love watching whoever we disagree with lose a public debate.

Well, I was teaching through some of the parables in Luke recently and one word stuck with me longer than I expected it to. It’s not even part of the parable really, it’s just the set up. Jesus is pushing back against his critics and Luke says, “all his opponents were humiliated, but the people were delighted with all the wonderful things he was doing.” (Luke 13:17)

And here’s the thing, I get it. We all want to see the bad guys get theirs, a little schadenfreude is always welcome, but I don’t think we should read that as Jesus’ intent…

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