DISCIPLE 3: REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE
We will read the major and minor Old Testament
prophets, and will read the thirteen letters traditionally
attributed to Paul over 32 weeks.
Several themes weave their way through the study:
the call to remember, the call to repentance, the need for renewed
vision (eyes to see, ears to hear),and the place of community. The
prophets and Paul are continually calling hearers and readers back
to their God and to a sense of who they are as a people “set apart.”
The prophets and the community cannot be separated.
The prophets spoke for God, out of the community,
and to the community.
Paul’s experience of the risen Lord, his
relationship to the community head dressed, his Jewish traditions,
and the Greco-Roman culture of his day merged in his writing of the
letters. Paul used the language of his culture tocarry the message
that arose out of his roots in the Hebrew Scriptures and
Judaism.