DAY 606 - No, You Are Wrong! (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

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                               Today's Reading: Galatians 2:11-14

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Bible Study

     Yesterday's passage talks about acceptance in the midst of big difference. This passage talks about Paul's courage to confront the top leader, Peter. Actually, what is really happening? 

Bishop N.T. Wright says ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright ) :
      So why is Paul telling them about this confrontation in Antioch, and why does he say Peter and Barnabas were play-acting? 

      It is likely that the troublemakers in Galatia had already told the new converts there that Paul and Peter had had an argument in Antioch over whether Gentile Christians were really full members of the family.  They may have heard a version of the story in which Peter had the strongest arguments; and the story, told this way, was powerful reinforcement for their own case to the puzzled Galatians. 'There, you see,' they would say; 'Paul hadn't told you the whole story.  Peter was after all Jesus' right-hand man.  He knew that you couldn't belong to the true Israel without becoming a full Jew.  He drew the line at table-fellowhip with uncircumcised Gentiles.' 
      So Paul has to tell the story his way, to bring out the fact that this wasn't just a squabble between two ways of interpreting one comparatively trivial point;  it involved the very heart of the gospel. 

N.T. Wright. Paul for Everyone:Galatians and Thessalonians. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004, p.22.

     
     If you were Paul, do you think you would do that kind of thing to challenge the top leader? Do you have the courage as Paul had to tell other people and to confront Peter in that way? 

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe":  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

Spiritual Journal

    What I heard from Jesus today is: No, you are wrong!

    What I got from Jesus today is not easy to deal with. First, it is not easy for us to have the courage to challenge the top leader. Second, how do you know that you are right and he is wrong?

     Anyway, this passage is not talking about the way of how to discern who is right and who is wrong. This passage is talking about the courage of Paul to stand firm on the heart of the gospel to confront the top leader Peter.

     This passage is talking about whether you have the same courage as Paul to tell some important people, "No, you are wrong!" 

     But, before doing that, you really need to be certain that you know the heart of the gospel like Paul and you have an intimate personal relationship with Jesus so that you are not like a Pharisee always seeing the negative side of people and like to attack those people you disagree with. 

Dear Lord Jesus, 

Lead us to be able to have the courage to confront those leaders who are out of order so that we can keep your church in unity and peace.  In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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