It’s Day 29 and we’re in John 11.
Where God Spoke To Me:
- Verses 21, 32 - I like the fact that they could be honest about their questions and disappointments with Jesus and He doesn't condemn them for it.
If you want to read the chapter online, here’s a link.
If you have a question or comment, email me at butcher@ymail.com.
Your Comments and Questions:
- A comment from one of our 60IN60 participants: 1 Timothy 6. "I love this chapter—for its message, yes, but also because of its sinuous reasoning. Although it only occasionally shows (as far as I know), I think Paul had a solid grounding in the philosophy that preceded his time. The term “sophistry” is fairly recent, but the contempt for Sophists is ancient. Plato loathed their specious reasonings because they were based more on the desire to win a point rat her than make a point. How modern can you get? They also fit here because they taught for money and had a reputation for turning reason into coin. When I mention sinuous reasoning, I am talking about how Paul ties together ideas that seem far apart from each other. He tells slaves to honor their masters, and then drops the anvil: masters should treat slaves well, and Christian masters should treat slaves as brethren. Not much of that seeped through to the antebellum South. Then he moves from demanding humility in masters to demanding satisfaction to one’s earthly lot generally. This, of course, in the context of a church of equals. Then he moves slickly from contentment to discontent and those who sew it—and ties that not just to intellectual arrogance but to greed—and thence to the love of money, which is, after all, the subjection of reason. And then to the base of proper reason, which is not Sophistic (or even Socratic) but a profession/confession of faith in the one who gifted us with reason. And then another quick pivot back to instructing rich people to use their riches as a profession of faith, namely good works. This is one slick dude!"
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