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On this Third Sunday of Easter, we read an interesting passage from the Gospel of Luke which is an excellent example of something known as “Bible Studies.” Specifically, we read;
“He [Jesus] said to them, ‘These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and in the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.’ Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures. And he said to them, ‘Thus it is written that the Christ would suffer and rise form the dead on the third day and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins, would be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things’” (Luke: 24: 44-48).
What Jesus was doing was Bible Studies with his disciples. Bible Studies is an academic discipline that seeks to answer the question, “What did the original writers of the Scripture mean by what they wrote?” The only “experts” in Bible Studies are exegetes, scholars who study the Bible. Jesus, being God, was obviously an “expert” on what the Old Testament of the Bible.
Unlike Bible studies is Faith Sharing. The purpose of Faith Sharing to answer the question, “What does the Scripture mean to me? How does it touch my heart?” The “experts” in Faith Sharing are those who share their opinions, feelings, life experiences, and the like.
Both approaches are excellent, but they each have radically different purposes.
The priest-as-preacher is called to take both approaches and go one step beyond. His task is to answer the question, “So what! What does that have to do with me today?!” I quite often like to use examples from saints and others who lived Biblical principles to a very advanced level in their lives. By having such concrete examples, we, too, can put such principles into action in our daily lives.
