Tag: Galatians 3
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Volf and Fictive Family
I've been working my way through Miroslav Volf's Exclusion and Embrace. In light of my recent Household of God series, I found the passage below interesting. Here Volf is describing how Paul dealt with reconciling God's universality as Lord of all with his culturally particular revelation to the Jews. As he worked it out in…
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Household: Change in Status
Gal 3:25-4:7 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer subject to a disciplinarian, 26 for in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. 27 As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28 There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is…
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Household of God
So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. (Eph 2:19-20, NRSV) Oikos tou Theou, "household of God." I have done revisioning work over…
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The Significance of Paul, Lydia, and the Church at Philippi
The story about Lydia and the founding of a congregation at Philippi in Acts 16 contains some easily overlooked details that speak volumes. A class I led at church just finished , Kenneth Bailey's series Women in the New Testament (A Middle Eastern Cultural View). Today, I thought I would highlight his observations about Lydia…