Today's Discussion Question: What should we be asking of God that we usually don't?
I though today's discussion question was quite clever when I put our readings together. I sort of still do. But today, at the 3pm session in the Pavilion in the Tulsa Workshop, Randy Harris radically altered my reading of this text. God's timing is truly awesome.
Because of my limited comprehension, I left off verse 6. Verse 6 is that random saying about not giving sacred things to dogs and pearls to pigs. Randy says we normally read verse six as the end of the paragraph that begins in verse one. He challenged us to open our minds to a reading of verse six as the first verse of a paragraph that ends with verse 12. Before you do that, consider this. Dogs and pigs in 1st Century rabbinic teaching are Gentiles. Particularly they were the Roman oppressors. So consider reading this as though you, your faith, your trust, your need for life are what the word sacred represents. The world culture you live in is represented by the words dogs and pigs. And then read the rest of the way to verse 12. OK, now read this passage: Matthew 7:6-12.
How does that change the way you think about this passage?
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