Friday, October 21, 2005
How Not to Hinder God
Devotional Moment from Episcopal Priest Barbara Brown Taylor. She is giving a sermon on the place in Acts where Peter has just had some pretty crazy dreams concerning his long held belief about the sanctity of the Jewish dietary laws:
Acts 10: 34-35.
"Then Peter began to speak: "I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism but accepts men from every nation who fear him and do what is right.'"
"I wish there were some way we could understand how important dietary law has been to the people of Israel... imagine anything that, for you, is the dividing line between Christians and other people - the one thing that makes us who we are, that is not negotiable, that we cannot let slide without letting slide our whole identity as the people of God. And when you have figured out what that is, get ready to LET IT GO, because that is what Peter did. He had to. God gave him a vision that changed everything he had ever believed about who he was and how he was supposed to live." (excerpt from Bread of Angels)
AMEN
Acts 10: 34-35.
"Then Peter began to speak: "I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism but accepts men from every nation who fear him and do what is right.'"
"I wish there were some way we could understand how important dietary law has been to the people of Israel... imagine anything that, for you, is the dividing line between Christians and other people - the one thing that makes us who we are, that is not negotiable, that we cannot let slide without letting slide our whole identity as the people of God. And when you have figured out what that is, get ready to LET IT GO, because that is what Peter did. He had to. God gave him a vision that changed everything he had ever believed about who he was and how he was supposed to live." (excerpt from Bread of Angels)
AMEN
# posted by ErinW @ 9:46 AM 
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