more from the intro:
"Is [the book] written from the Baptist Church's angle?" one asked. "You are a Baptist, aren't you?"
"Paul was not a Baptist," I replied. "He admonished those whose doctrinal tenets focused on John the Baptist."
"Then you're a Catholic, maybe?" he asked.
"Maybe," I said, "since catholic means 'universal.'"
"But not the Roman Catholic Church?" he asked.
"No," I said. "Paul was a Jew. He was a doctor of the Law."
"Then it's written from the Jewish viewpoint, right?"
"No, mine," I said.
"But you're a Baptist."
I finally settled on a fundamental answer. "I, as a believer that Jesus of Nazareth, a Jew, the Christ of the Greeks, was the Anointed One of God (born of the seed of David, upon faith as Abraham had faith, and it was accounted to him as righteousness), am grafted onto the true vine, and am one of the heirs of God's covenant with Israel."
"What?"
"I'm a Christian," I said. "Don't put me in another box."
3 comments:
I like the way he thinks.
me too :)
and me (which would be why i posted this i suppose)
Post a Comment