In this and every age, the church desperately needs prophecy.
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..
For Luke Timothy Johnson, the New Testament books Luke and Acts provide that much-needed jolt to conventional norms.
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.
In this and every age, the church desperately needs prophecy