Sept 6, 2026 - The Gospel of Luke - Week 18 - Unexpected Faith

Surprisingly, I hope that in the last 19 weeks we have been looking in the gospel of Luke.

We've made it through seven chapters in the last 19 weeks.

We've done a lot of hearing.

I hope you get to the point where you've heard enough.

That's what I think Luke is going to do in this passage.

And surprisingly, I think you will learn a lot about what it means to be formed as a Christ follower through this passage this morning.

And so I don't know, maybe it's a pattern that we can learn.

Maybe it's something that we can take with us.

But I think Luke wants us to be at a place where we have heard enough.

The last time we spent time in Luke's gospel was Jesus finishing with a story of two guys doing what? hearing.

One of those people put into practice Jesus's words, and they were compared to a wise guy building on a rocky foundation.

And one of them did not put into practice what Jesus said.

And the house collapses with a terrible crash.

We've all been hearing.

Everybody's been hearing.

We live in a world that you can now make money on a podcast where what people are doing is what? Listening.

Hear, hear, hear, hear, hear.

We can hear everything now.

Have you heard enough? That's where Luke is going to lead us this morning.

And Luke is about to show us what having heard enough looks like.

but he's going to show us through somebody that nobody would have expected in this scenario.

It's not going to be the disciples.

It's not going to be a good rabbi.

It's going to be through the life of a Roman centurion.

And by the end of that encounter, as Ms. Doreen introduced us to, Jesus is going to be amazed.