Tag: God’s living temple

Household: Reviewing the Big Picture (Part 2)

Sep 7, 2007

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mwkruse

in Culture, History, Series: Household of God, Sociology, Theology

Jesus and the New Testament leaders needed ways to express metaphorically the ethos of God's new community. Family and household became dominant metaphors. There were instances of the household image in the Old Testament but nothing like the rich imagery we see in the New Testament. Yet the Jesus movement was not the only one…
Household: Fictive Family in 1 Peter

Sep 4, 2007

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mwkruse

in Culture, History, Series: Household of God, Sociology, Theology

We saw a reference to the Church as God’s living temple in Ephesians 2:21. The first ten verses of 1 Peter elaborate a little more on this imagery. 1 Peter 2:1-10 Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander. 2 Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk,…