CAN THESE PEOPLE EAT TOGETHER? 📖 Romans 14 Every table tells a story. This week, we pulled up a chair to ask: Can we actually eat together? The early church in Rome was divided by food, culture, status, trauma. 🍽 Slaves with no control over their bodies. 📜 Jewish believers clinging to Torah as survival, not superiority. 🗽 Gentiles flaunting their freedom as pride, not love. 🏛 Wealthy hosts, poor guests, complex histories, clashing worlds. Paul doesn’t say “just get along.” He says: Disarm....
📖 Romans 1:1–2, 16–17 🔹 The gospel begins in shame — and undoes it 🔹 Jesus is Lord means Caesar is not 🔹 Phoebe preached it first 🔹 God’s justice is not abstract — it’s healing, embodied, and disruptive 💬 Romans has long been read through the lens of empire, patriarchy, and personal escape. But what if it was never meant to justify power, but expose it? This week, we opened the book not through Augustine or Luther, but through Phoebe — the first to carry and interpret this dangerous...
28 May 2025
Plain Discipleship Wk 5: Sunil Joseph - Reconciliation Week - 25th May 2025
BRIDGING NOW TO NEXT 📖 Luke 6:37–42 Reconciliation is not a destination — it's a bridge we walk with Jesus. As we obvserve National Sorry Day and Reconciliation Week, we’re reminded: 🧹 Clear the bridge — Let go of judgement and condemnation. 🕊 Fuel the bridge — Forgive boldly, give generously. 🌊 Shape the culture — Overflow with grace, not scarcity. 🔍 Look inward — Remove the log in our own eye before pointing to others. Reconciliation isn’t symbolic. It’s relational, economic, structural — a...
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