Sermon Text: Matthew 10: 24-39
Think About It: One of the commentators I read this week highlighted the word “soul” (psyche in Greek) in v 28 of our text today. Whereas Greek thought, heavily influenced by Platonic dualism, might see the “soul” as being able to separate from the “body”—this did not represent Jewish thought. Jews understood that that which makes humans alive or conscious is not separable from body. A question for today, then, might be this: “What is it that makes a human, a human?” What destroys that humanity? What might begin to reclaim that humanity?
