Chapel Speaker Jessica Watson Brings Modern Take to Luke 7

March 30, 2016 Crystal McKinnie (Student writer)

Jessica Watson, a Logsdon Seminary Student and Director of Connections at Aldersgate United Methodist Church, brought a modern take on a story from Luke 7 to chapel Tuesday.

In Luke 7, there is the story of a Roman centurion asking Jesus for healing and Jesus reviving a widow’s son from the dead. Watson addressed the differences between the Roman centurion and the widow asking, “Would he dare to ask anything of this Jesus of Nazareth if not for his position in society.”

The Jewish widow in the story found that “this Jesus was finally a man worth following and finally a man who stood on the side of the poor and the oppressed.” Watson wondered that upon seeing the Roman centurion ask for healing the widow must have thought, “Was Jesus any different from the other religious leaders?”

Watson ended with the idea that “We are all his people: the poor, the widow, the tax collector, the prostitute, and even the Roman centurion and there wasn’t just resurrection of the boy but resurrection in the hope of Jesus for all.”

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