Greetings friends, I just published a new blog post (excerpt and link below) - go check it out and feel free to share it far and wide.
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Glenn || PATREON | BUY ME A COFFEE
“I feel like the Bible is a massive picture of what it looks like to be on the human journey.
When God called Israel, he called them to be a fountain of life to all of the world. Right? They were to be a blessing to the nations, that was the command that God gave to Abraham.
BUT.
As time went on ... were they? Not really. As Israel got settled and got bigger and they got kings and leaders and went to war against various nations and were enslaved ... didn't the idea of being "a Chosen people" go to their heads?
We see this in the group of Pharisees that Jesus constantly went up against, right? - This desire to elevate the chosen ones and outcast the other.
(SIDE NOTE: it's important not to demonize Judaism and Jewish people by looking at them through the lens of the Pharisees talked about in the Gospels. The reality is that those Pharisees were a very SMALL group of Pharisees and don't really reflect the mindset or character traits of the larger group of Pharisees.)
And then Jesus took us full circle and showed us what it means to be chosen by God to be a blessing to the world, to be a person who welcomes and makes space for everyone.
This is what happens to us as humans, isn’t it? …”