Sunday School

We decided last fall to study the general letters of the new testament. In a paroxysm of glibness, I suppose, the class wanted to pursue the study from the back forward so we started with Jude. We worked back to the pastorals, and now are finishing the letters to Timothy. It has been an interesting study. It seems the two primary themes that are hammered over and over and over in these letters are the admonition to personal holiness driven by love, and the caution to maintain the unadulterated truth of the gospel in the face of powerful efforts to add to it, revise it, or dilute it. Interestingly, it seems those letters are truly timeless and as valid today as they were when written.

We have decided to move on to the letters of Paul to the churches, and will be maintaining the bassakward approach we have started. It will be interesting, no doubt.