Doesn't likewise take much to realize that the church at Corinth was a dumpster fire (or "were multiple dumpster fires"). Paul went with the loving candor. Our results may vary.
As a student of Northern extraction, I attended "Stone Campbell Movement Seminary" at the urging of Southerners who had made MN their mission field. The Bible (evangelism/missions) degree folks impressed each student with the Pastorals as if each was written personally to us. The whole "spirit of power, love and self-control|sound mind" thing continued to elude me (sarX sucks!) until I encountered Watchman Nee / Witness Lee audio books (not that my dumpster is not currently smoldering). I realized, contrary to the perennial USAn uptick in violence against Asians, that the Hebrew wisdom I was absorbing made much more sense when I imagined these Levantine "authors" as Eastern and searched for translations which emphasized the "guidance" of the Torah over the "law" of Middle English fare. And now a psalm I stole regarding the Father of forces/spirits/powers https://pastebin.com/HrDc6NHJ
Doesn't likewise take much to realize that the church at Corinth was a dumpster fire (or "were multiple dumpster fires"). Paul went with the loving candor. Our results may vary.
*nods* What we do with our Dumpster Fire is what we will have done with our lives.
As a student of Northern extraction, I attended "Stone Campbell Movement Seminary" at the urging of Southerners who had made MN their mission field. The Bible (evangelism/missions) degree folks impressed each student with the Pastorals as if each was written personally to us. The whole "spirit of power, love and self-control|sound mind" thing continued to elude me (sarX sucks!) until I encountered Watchman Nee / Witness Lee audio books (not that my dumpster is not currently smoldering). I realized, contrary to the perennial USAn uptick in violence against Asians, that the Hebrew wisdom I was absorbing made much more sense when I imagined these Levantine "authors" as Eastern and searched for translations which emphasized the "guidance" of the Torah over the "law" of Middle English fare. And now a psalm I stole regarding the Father of forces/spirits/powers https://pastebin.com/HrDc6NHJ
Thank you for this, Jonathan. Stay safe.