Tonight in my study on John via Google Hangouts on Air I’m going to talk about the law and Jesus, Jews and Christians, and Judaism and Christianity. I’m embedding the player below. In the meantime, read 3 ways to Confront the New Antisemitism by Rabbi Evan Moffic.
For tonight:
In God’s economy, there is never prosperity without mission. I’ve been thinking about this in the last few days in connection with a number of issues, and I think it is a scriptural principle. I think you can replace “prosperity” with other terms of blessing, such as peace, joy, and fulfilment. This is where, in…
I’m delighted that my church, First United Methodist Church of Pensacola has started offering Holy Communion at all services. For several years this has been offered at the ICON service and at the 9:30 service, but was only offered monthly at the others. Now this will be consistent, and I think closer to the way…
I recently worked my way through Luke Timothy Johnson’s Hebrews: A Commentary (New Testament Library) along with the Greek text, and I’m going to write a few notes on the book, which may, or may not, constitute a real review. Time will tell! The problem with many blogger book reviews is that they often amount…
Teachers and pastors frequently avoid talking about sanctification. Some of the reasons include: A Detour on Christian Perfection When I first joined a United Methodist congregation, I had the idea that Methodists would know a great deal about John Wesley. One Sunday night I discovered how wrong I was. I had been invited to teach…
For those who are not familiar with it, impartation, at least in charismatic circles refers to passing on a gift, or even on occasion a calling or anointing when one person or persons lays hands on another. I’m not going to try to summarize the various views on this. First, I’m not fully acquainted with…
My early morning reading brought two things together that led me to this post. The first was a blog entry by Shane Raynor on The Wesley Blog, titled What’s Missing from Our Christianity?. In it Shane makes a very important point: Many of us intellectually believe all the right stuff. Or at least most of…
A very nuanced discussion tonight. It’s very easy to be a supersessionist, but you took much of that ease away.
I know it’s outside the fourth gospel, but my mind went to Romans 10:18 to 11:24, in which there’s to my mind a fairly incontrovertible statement of supersession.
Of course, the problem always arises when a new religion branches from an existing one; it exists between Christianity and Islam, between Islam and Baha’i, between Christianity and LDS even. The new religion thinks they have a better mousetrap and, if they want to preach it, are inevitably supersessionist, the old thinks they’re dangerous heretics.
Have you any suggestion as to how I can read Romans without supersessionism? I would prefer not to discount Pauline theologising as “just plain wrong”, but at the moment that is my only route.