{"id":1927,"date":"2011-02-15T12:13:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T17:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/hungerrumblings\/?p=1927"},"modified":"2011-02-15T12:13:45","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T17:13:45","slug":"love-those-old-testament-purity-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/worldhunger\/love-those-old-testament-purity-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Those Old Testament Purity Laws!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/hungerrumblings\/2011\/02\/negative_Saint_BW1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1930\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/hungerrumblings\/2011\/02\/negative_Saint_BW1-173x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>What follows is an excerpt from a hunger sermon starter for this coming Sunday&#8217;s texts. \u00a0It is a reflection on Leviticus 19:1-2 and -18 (click <a href=\"http:\/\/bible.oremus.org\/?passage=Leviticus+19:1-18&amp;vnum=yes&amp;version=nrsv\">here<\/a> to read the text). \u00a0If you would to join the ListServ and receive weekly hunger related reflections on the lectionary, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elca.org\/Our-Faith-In-Action\/Responding-to-the-World\/ELCA-World-Hunger\/Resources\/For-Congregations\/Worship-Helps\/Sermon-Starters.aspx\">this Web page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.&#8221; (Leviticus 19:2)<\/p>\n<p>Leviticus&#8217; holiness code opens with the command to be holy because God is holy.\u00a0 In the modern context, we can often equate holiness with piety or inner virtue.\u00a0\u00a0 Many of the Old Testament purity laws address ritual impurity, those exterior things that are a threat to holiness.\u00a0 This week\u2019s lesson adds some (perhaps surprisingly) concrete moral practices to the holiness codes.<\/p>\n<p>Holiness in this text is not simply an inward disposition or avoidance of certain impure things.\u00a0 God\u2019s people are holy when they leave parts of their fields unharvested for those who are poor and marginalized to glean.\u00a0 There are many amazing gleaning programs that are feeding many people (see, for example, Feeding America, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedingamerica.org\/\">www.feedingamerica.org<\/a>; the Society of Saint Andrew, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.endhunger.org\/\">www.endhunger.org<\/a>; and Foods Resource Bank, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodsresourcebank.org\/\">www.foodsresourcebank.org<\/a>).\u00a0 How else might we leave portions of our \u201cfields\u201d unharvested for those who are hungry?<\/p>\n<p>God\u2019s people are holy by paying just wages.\u00a0 God\u2019s people are holy when they look out for the interests of those who are vulnerable. \u00a0God\u2019s people are holy when they do not profit from the blood of their neighbor (on what this might mean, check out \u201cThe Story of Stuff,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.storyofstuff.org\/\">www.storyofstuff.org<\/a>).\u00a0 By loving one\u2019s neighbor as one\u2019s self\u2014this is not an appeal to how one feels about their neighbor, but a call to action\u2014we bear witness to the Lord.<\/p>\n<p>David Creech<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What follows is an excerpt from a hunger sermon starter for this coming Sunday&#8217;s texts. \u00a0It is a reflection on Leviticus 19:1-2 and -18 (click here to read the text). \u00a0If you would to join the ListServ and receive weekly hunger related reflections on the lectionary, visit this Web page. &#8220;You shall be holy, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Love Those Old Testament Purity Laws! 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