For our final week in Colossians, our pastor, Jason, was joined by Jessica Hughes for a conversation about the household code in chapter 3. What do you do with a text that calls for wives to submit to their husbands when we know that so many women are abused? What do you do with a text that calls for slaves to obey their masters? And how do these teachings relate to the big, hopeful idea of Colossians - that God has chosen to live God's life in flesh and blood?
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I loved the way you set up and then unfolded the three readings of the passage. I was moved to tears by the enormous grace inherent in “what if the passage means exactly what it says” and all of the implications inherent in that. It was lovely that you were so clear to make a distinction between the context and now, in that women can and should seek out help now, but then in returning to the context of the pater familias and the slave owner, showing that “Anyone who does wrong will be repaid for their wrongs, and there is no favoritism.” Amen! So much freedom and grace extended to the powerless individual against evil systems and structures. It was also SO beautiful to see you showing the way in which the later chapters of the very same letter show the impact of that good news and the freedom and new life that it brings as shown in the treatment of Onesimus and the mention of Nympha and her role. I love how you dealt with the inherent “contradictions” to show that these weren’t contradictions at all but signs of the gospel at work in the community and God's kingdom breaking in and transforming their lived and known reality to expand known modes of operation and resist cultural limitations!
Thursday May 23, 2019
Loved it. Thank you!
Sunday May 19, 2019
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