{"id":5829,"date":"2024-02-28T14:43:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T20:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/worldhunger\/?p=5829"},"modified":"2024-02-28T14:43:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T20:43:48","slug":"2024-world-hunger-lent-study-week-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/worldhunger\/2024-world-hunger-lent-study-week-3\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 World Hunger Lent Study: Week 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The following is taken from the 2024 ELCA World Hunger Lent Study. The full resource can be ordered as a hardcopy or downloaded as a PDF in English or Spanish at the link\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elca.org\/Resources\/ELCA-World-Hunger\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\">Week 3 \u2014 Crucifixion Exodus<\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Exodus 20:1-17<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Psalm 19<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">1 Corinthians 1:18-25<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">John 2:13-22<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>\u201cWe proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>\u00a0\u20141 Corinthians 1:23<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this week of Lent, having reflected on encountering God in reconciliation and in transfiguration, we turn toward Paul\u2019s message of \u201cChrist crucified\u201d and reflect on what it means to encounter God in crucifixion, to be confronted with our own participation in systemic oppression.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1888, Bethlehem Lutheran Church in the Central City neighborhood of New Orleans, La., is the oldest historically Black ELCA congregation in the continental United States. The church has a long legacy of responding to the needs of its members and neighbors. One way Bethlehem carries on that legacy is through the Community Table, a feeding ministry that provides free, no-questions-asked gourmet meals every week. This ministry, which is supported by ELCA World Hunger, helps to meet the need for food in Central City. The median household income in Bethlehem\u2019s ZIP code is slightly more than $26,189, less than one-third of the median household income in the United States ($69,021 at the time of writing). More than 15% of the people in Orleans Parish are food-insecure.<\/p>\n<p>With so many workers relying on the city\u2019s tourism and hospitality industry, Bethlehem Lutheran saw a rapid increase in the number of people needing food during the COVID-19 pandemic. Working with partners, the Community Table was able to expand, and by this spring it was providing a free lunch four times a week, serving over 600 meals weekly. As the need has increased, Bethlehem Lutheran has been able to meet it.<\/p>\n<p>A key leader in helping the Community Table and Bethlehem respond during and after the pandemic was Chef De, who planned, coordinated, supervised, cooked and served hundreds of meals for people who came to the Table. \u201cI don\u2019t think Bethlehem would have made it through the pandemic if it were not for Chef De,\u201d says the Rev. Ben Groth, pastor of Bethlehem Lutheran. \u201cAnd I also believe it to be true that many of our neighbors would not have made it without her, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As noted by Mike Scott, a writer for the <em>New Orleans Times-Picayune<\/em>, the Central City neighborhood has a long, rich history: it is home to New Zion Baptist Church, where the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was formally incorporated. Yet, as Scott also writes, by the early 2000s, Central City had become \u201cdefined [by some people] by its crime rate\u201d and its \u201ccrushing poverty.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some people might easily let the community\u2019s present challenges define its future. We see this often when cities are dealing with statistically high rates of poverty, food insecurity or crime. Outsiders looking in dismiss such neighborhoods as nothing more than their statistics or decide they must be \u201csaved\u201d by the decisive action of political leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Journeying together through Lent, we are invited to consider what it means for us today that God\u2019s son was crucified 2,000 years ago. Lent has often been a season for us to take stock of our own sinfulness and need for repentance. In many ways the cross is a mirror, reflecting back to us our entanglement in sin. Yet the cross is also a lens, a way of perceiving and apprehending the world. All too frequently during Lent, we lose sight of the latter aspect.<\/p>\n<p>As a lens, the cross shapes how we understand ourselves, our world and our communities. It reminds us that God is present in Jesus\u2019 suffering and death on the cross. This doesn\u2019t mean that suffering or death are God\u2019s work or that there is something redemptive in suffering or death. Quite the contrary: a cross-shaped (cruciform) lens compels us to recognize suffering for what it is, to name it and confront it.<\/p>\n<p>This is the foolishness Paul describes in his letter to the Corinthians. Who would ever recognize God in the broken, pierced and dying body of Christ? Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky, upon seeing a painting of a dead Christ, is reported to have remarked to his wife that such a painting could cause one to lose their faith. This is what Paul means, in part, by the \u201cfoolishness\u201d of the message of the cross (1 Corinthians 1:18). To preach the message of Christ crucified is foolishness to those who cannot fathom the presence of divinity within frailty or weakness, who cannot comprehend God as both actor and victim.<\/p>\n<p>Yet that is precisely what the cross demands of us. To preach Christ crucified, to journey through Lent to the cross, is to bind ourselves to honesty, to the sort of truth-telling that names suffering and injustice for what they are yet still affirms the presence of God. For Central City and Bethlehem Lutheran Church, the message of Christ crucified affirms that stories of poverty or hunger aren\u2019t the only stories being written or told in the community. It may be foolishness to those on the outside looking in, but it is gospel truth for those who encounter God at a community table where neighbors prepare, provide and share meals.<\/p>\n<p>To encounter God within the crucifixion is to be reminded that we cannot ignore the truth of suffering, hunger, poverty, violence, death and injustice in a world still waiting for the fullness of the reign of God. But to encounter God in this event is to be radically open to God\u2019s presence in this same as-yet-incomplete world. It is to seek God within our communities and one another, even as the world declares this seeking to be \u201cfoolishness.\u201d It is to affirm with faithful certainty that in the stories of our neighbors and neighborhoods, God is being revealed to us in sometimes new and surprising ways.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Reflection Questions<\/h2>\n<p>What do you think Paul means by \u201cfoolishness\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>How does your perception of Central City or your own community change when you look at them through a cross-shaped lens?<\/p>\n<p>In what new or unexpected ways have you encountered God, especially as you faced your own \u201ccrosses\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>What might it mean to \u201cbind ourselves to honesty, to the sort of truth-telling that names suffering and injustice for what they are yet still affirms the presence of God\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\">Semana 3 \u2014 Crucifixi\u00f3n<\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u00c9xodo 20:1-17<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Salmo 19<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">1 Corintios 1:18-25<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Juan 2:13-22<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>\u201cMientras que nosotros predicamos a Cristo crucificado. Este mensaje es motivo de tropiezo para los jud\u00edos y es locura para los no jud\u00edos\u201d. \u20141 Corintios 1:23 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>En esta semana de Cuaresma, despu\u00e9s de haber reflexionado sobre el encuentro con Dios en la reconciliaci\u00f3n y en la transfiguraci\u00f3n, nos dirigimos hacia el mensaje de Pablo de \u201cCristo crucificado\u201d y reflexionamos sobre lo que significa encontrar a Dios en la crucifixi\u00f3n, para ser confrontados con nuestra propia participaci\u00f3n en la opresi\u00f3n sist\u00e9mica.<\/p>\n<p>Fundada en 1888, Bethlehem Lutheran Church [Iglesia Luterana Bel\u00e9n] en el vecindario de Central City de Nueva Orleans, Luisiana, es la congregaci\u00f3n hist\u00f3ricamente negra de la ELCA m\u00e1s antigua de los Estados Unidos continentales. La iglesia tiene un largo legado de responder a las necesidades de sus miembros y vecinos. Una de las formas en que Bethlehem contin\u00faa con ese legado es a trav\u00e9s de Community Table [Mesa Comunitaria], un ministerio de alimentaci\u00f3n que todas las semanas ofrece comidas gourmet gratuitas y sin hacer preguntas. Este ministerio, que cuenta con el respaldo de ELCA World Hunger, ayuda a satisfacer la necesidad de comida en Central City. El ingreso familiar promedio en el c\u00f3digo postal de Bethlehem es un poco m\u00e1s de $ 26,189, menos de un tercio del ingreso familiar promedio en los Estados Unidos ($ 69,021 en el momento de escribir este art\u00edculo). M\u00e1s del 15% de las personas en Orleans Parish sufren inseguridad alimentaria.<\/p>\n<p>Con tantos trabajadores que dependen de la industria del turismo y la hospitalidad de la ciudad, Bethlehem Lutheran vio un r\u00e1pido aumento en el n\u00famero de personas que necesitaban comida durante la pandemia de COVID-19. Al trabajar con socios, Community Table pudo expandirse, y para esta primavera estaba dando un almuerzo gratis cuatro veces a la semana, sirviendo m\u00e1s de 600 comidas semanales. A medida que la necesidad ha aumentado, Bethlehem Lutheran ha sido capaz de satisfacerla.<\/p>\n<p>Una l\u00edder clave que ayud\u00f3 a Community Table y a Bethlehem a responder durante y despu\u00e9s de la pandemia fue la chef De, quien planific\u00f3, coordin\u00f3, supervis\u00f3, cocin\u00f3 y sirvi\u00f3 cientos de comidas para las personas que vinieron a la mesa. \u201cNo creo que Bethlehem hubiera sobrevivido a la pandemia si no fuera por la chef De\u201d, dice el reverendo Ben Groth, pastor de Bethlehem Lutheran. \u201cY tambi\u00e9n creo que es cierto que muchos de nuestros vecinos no lo habr\u00edan logrado sin ella.<\/p>\n<p>Como se\u00f1al\u00f3 Mike Scott, escritor de New Orleans Times-Picayune, el vecindario de Central City tiene una larga y rica historia: es el hogar de la Iglesia Bautista New Zion [Nueva Si\u00f3n], donde se incorpor\u00f3 formalmente la Southern Christian Leadership Conference [Conferencia de Liderazgo Cristiano del Sur]. Sin embargo, como tambi\u00e9n escribe Scott, a principios de la d\u00e9cada de 2000, Central City hab\u00eda llegado a ser \u201cdefinida [por algunas personas] por su tasa de criminalidad\u201d y su \u201cpobreza aplastante\u201d.<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Algunas personas podr\u00edan dejar que los desaf\u00edos actuales de la comunidad definan su futuro. A menudo vemos esto cuando las ciudades se enfrentan a tasas estad\u00edsticamente altas de pobreza, inseguridad alimentaria o delincuencia. Las personas externas que miran hacia adentro desestiman esos barrios como nada m\u00e1s que sus estad\u00edsticas o deciden que deben ser \u201csalvados\u201d por la acci\u00f3n decisiva de los l\u00edderes pol\u00edticos.<\/p>\n<p>En nuestra jornada juntos durante la Cuaresma se nos invita a considerar lo que significa para nosotros hoy que el hijo de Dios fue crucificado hace 2,000 a\u00f1os. La Cuaresma ha sido a menudo una temporada para que hagamos un balance de nuestra propia pecaminosidad y necesidad de arrepentimiento. En muchos sentidos, la cruz es un espejo que nos refleja nuestra participaci\u00f3n en el pecado. Sin embargo, la cruz es tambi\u00e9n una lente, una forma de percibir y aprehender el mundo. Con demasiada frecuencia, durante la Cuaresma perdemos de vista este \u00faltimo aspecto.<\/p>\n<p>Como lente, la cruz moldea la forma en que nos entendemos a nosotros mismos, a nuestro mundo y a nuestras comunidades. Nos recuerda que Dios est\u00e1 presente en el sufrimiento y la muerte de Jes\u00fas en la cruz. Esto no significa que el sufrimiento o la muerte sean obra de Dios o que haya un elemento redentor en el sufrimiento o la muerte. Todo lo contrario; una lente en forma de cruz (cruciforme) nos obliga a reconocer el sufrimiento por lo que es, a nombrarlo y enfrentarlo.<\/p>\n<p>Esta es la locura que Pablo describe en su carta a los Corintios. \u00bfQui\u00e9n reconocer\u00eda a Dios en el cuerpo quebrantado, traspasado y moribundo de Cristo? Se dice que el novelista ruso Fi\u00f3dor Dostoievski, al ver una pintura de Cristo muerto, le coment\u00f3 a su esposa que tal pintura podr\u00eda hacer que uno perdiera la fe. Esto es lo que Pablo quiere decir, en parte, con la \u201clocura\u201d del mensaje de la cruz (1 Corintios 1:18). Predicar el mensaje de Cristo crucificado es una locura para aquellos que no pueden comprender la presencia de la divinidad dentro de la fragilidad o la debilidad; que no pueden comprender a Dios como actor y v\u00edctima.<\/p>\n<p>Sin embargo, eso es precisamente lo que la cruz exige de nosotros. Predicar a Cristo crucificado, caminar a trav\u00e9s de la Cuaresma hasta la cruz, es comprometerse con la honestidad, con el tipo de verdad que llama el sufrimiento y la injusticia por lo que son, pero que aun as\u00ed afirma la presencia de Dios. Para Central City y Bethlehem Lutheran Church, el mensaje de Cristo crucificado afirma que las historias de pobreza o hambre no son las \u00fanicas historias que se escriben o cuentan en la comunidad. Para las personas externas que miran hacia adentro puede ser una tonter\u00eda, pero es la verdad del evangelio para aquellos que se encuentran con Dios en una mesa comunitaria donde los vecinos preparan, proveen y comparten comidas.<\/p>\n<p>Encontrar a Dios en la crucifixi\u00f3n es recordar que no podemos ignorar la verdad del sufrimiento, el hambre, la pobreza, la violencia, la muerte y la injusticia en un mundo que todav\u00eda espera la plenitud del reino de Dios. Pero encontrar a Dios en este evento es estar radicalmente abierto a la presencia de Dios en este mismo mundo a\u00fan incompleto. Es buscar a Dios dentro de nuestras comunidades y entre nosotros, incluso cuando el mundo declara que esta b\u00fasqueda es una \u201clocura\u201d. Es afirmar con fiel certeza que, en las historias de nuestros vecinos y vecindarios, Dios se nos est\u00e1 revelando de maneras a veces nuevas y sorprendentes.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Mike Scott, \u201cA Brief History of Central City, the Forsaken Heart of New Orleans,\u201d Nola.com, July 12, 2019, tinyurl.com\/mpks2x8m.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Mike Scott, \u201cA Brief History of Central City, the Forsaken Heart of New Orleans\u201d [Breve historia de Central City, el coraz\u00f3n abandonado de Nueva Orleans] Nola. com, 12 de julio de 2019, tinyurl.com\/mpks2x8m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is taken from the 2024 ELCA World Hunger Lent Study. The full resource can be ordered as a hardcopy or downloaded as a PDF in English or Spanish at the link\u00a0here. 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