During my quiet time, I am focusing on the exercises in Living By the Book Ch.15 Read Purposefully. I am reading the purpose statement passages given from Scripture and determine the author's purpose in my own words and then investigate how he communicates that to the audience (types of structure, repetition, etc.). There are 10 of them.
#6 Luke 1:1-4
After reading over the passage several times, I think one of Luke's purpose's was to affirm the validity and truth of the events surrounding Jesus' life and death by recording effectively his detailed intensely and meticulously studied observations and conclusions of the evidence before him. From his writings, you can tell Luke is beautifully smart and I am so glad he chose to be obedient to the Holy Spirit and use his God-given talents wisely to bless us by allowing us to get to read his account of our Savior. I believe he truly wants us to get it, that Jesus was real and really did these things. I also see maybe a special target audience of logic minded men, like my husband that can relate to him and his writings.
Just by briefly looking through the book during this time, I can see that he writes with attention to detail using chronological, historical, and geographical structure. Luke also does a good job of character establishment and development.
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