Prophetic Jesus Prophetic Church

<DIV>In this and every age the church desperately needs prophecy. It needs the bold proclamation of God's transforming vision to challenge its very human tendency toward expediency and self-interest - to jolt it into new insight and energy. For Luke Timothy Johnson the New Testament books Luke and Acts provide that much-needed jolt to conventional norms. To read Luke-Acts as a literary unit he says is to uncover a startling prophetic vision of Jesus and the church - and an ongoing call for today's church to embody and proclaim God's vision for the world.</DIV>