Don't Should On Me

Exodus 20:1-17

Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary: Year B, Volume 2 Homiletical Perspective

The appearance of the Decalogue in today’s readings gives preachers a perfect opportunity to explore the relationship between God’s faithfulness and human obedience.

Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary: Year B, Volume 2 Homiletical Perspective

Walter Brueggemann captures this sense in his commentary on Exodus 20 in The New Interpreter’s Bible. “These commands might be taken not as a series of rules,” he writes, “but as a proclamation in God’s own mouth of who God is and how God shall be ‘practiced’ by this community of liberated slaves.”