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b'This week\\u2019s passage picks up where last week\\u2019s left off. We talk about the process of learning and growing and what it can be like to people and places from our past \\u2014 how they can hold us back and how we can even end up holding them back.\\nRead the transcript (PDF)\\nLuke 4:21-30\\nHe began to explain to them, \\u201cToday, this scripture has been fulfilled just as you heard it.\\u201d\\nEveryone was raving about Jesus, so impressed were they by the gracious words flowing from his lips. They said, \\u201cThis is Joseph\\u2019s son, isn\\u2019t it?\\u201d\\nThen Jesus said to them, \\u201cUndoubtedly, you will quote this saying to me: \\u2018Doctor, heal yourself. Do here in your hometown what we\\u2019ve heard you did in Capernaum.\\u2019\\u201d He said, \\u201cI assure you that no prophet is welcome in the prophet\\u2019s hometown. And I can assure you that there were many widows in Israel during Elijah\\u2019s time, when it didn\\u2019t rain for three and a half years and there was a great food shortage in the land. Yet Elijah was sent to none of them but only to a widow in the city of Zarephath in the region of Sidon. There were also many persons with skin diseases in Israel during the time of the prophet Elisha, but none of them were cleansed. Instead, Naaman the Syrian was cleansed.\\u201d\\nWhen they heard this, everyone in the synagogue was filled with anger. They rose up and ran him out of town. They led him to the crest of the hill on which their town had been built so that they could throw him off the cliff. But he passed through the crowd and went on his way.\\nPhoto by\\xa0rawpixel\\nThe post How to be a more effective prophet \\u2013 Luke 4:21-30 appeared first on Queer Theology.'