Id been raised in church all my life and ministry for a decade or so before moving into medical herbalism.
For another day but the transition came about as I rediscovered St Patrick as a messianic Jew. In Northern Ireland I as at the time pondering how to do church in a northern Irish context that wasnt Protestant or Catholic.
The messianic movement is much bigger in the states than here but for the last 15 years or so I have been profoundly changed and affected as I begin to rediscover the Jewishness of Jesus and moving away from Greek thinking.
Doing so has changed by view of OT, Jesus, and crucially of Paul and the NT. dont get me wrong. Paul was my favourite dude coming to faith. Used the letters to try to be the best I could be, purge sin, strive forth etc. However the transition into Hebrew thought opens a completely different world view that is more holistic, more nuanced, more beautiful than I could have imagined.
Paul can be really badly misunderstood in so many ways. Like everything he must be taken into context not just given his place in the world at the time but also his place in canonical scriptures. There will be context and interpretation elsewhere in scripture should we need it. We need to take it all on board and weigh/test it
Id been raised in church all my life and ministry for a decade or so before moving into medical herbalism.
For another day but the transition came about as I rediscovered St Patrick as a messianic Jew. In Northern Ireland I as at the time pondering how to do church in a northern Irish context that wasnt Protestant or Catholic.
The messianic movement is much bigger in the states than here but for the last 15 years or so I have been profoundly changed and affected as I begin to rediscover the Jewishness of Jesus and moving away from Greek thinking.
Doing so has changed by view of OT, Jesus, and crucially of Paul and the NT. dont get me wrong. Paul was my favourite dude coming to faith. Used the letters to try to be the best I could be, purge sin, strive forth etc. However the transition into Hebrew thought opens a completely different world view that is more holistic, more nuanced, more beautiful than I could have imagined.
Paul can be really badly misunderstood in so many ways. Like everything he must be taken into context not just given his place in the world at the time but also his place in canonical scriptures. There will be context and interpretation elsewhere in scripture should we need it. We need to take it all on board and weigh/test it
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