Started the book of TITUS: probably written in the A.D. 60s or later to Titus on Crete from Paul, but in a style suitable for out loud reading to groups of Christ followers on the big, rugged island.
-"encourage and rebuke with authority" (not speaking from your own authority, but that of God's holy spirit; based on relationship and intended with love/integrity/sincerity, not moral superiority or its ironic inverse)
-Jesus as 'fulfilled Jew' --nothing new, but reasserting the *spirit* of God's convenant with his people (and all people, not only his chosen people): grace given by God for each person to hold; relational
-linkage of head knowledge (doctrine/logic/detail; 'saber' in Spanish), heart knowledge (feeling and attitude; experiential rather than verbally articulated; 'conocer' in Spanish) and action: each of these is tied together, like the seed and what fruits, like the innermost heart and the words and deeds that emerge, so too one's mental picture and one's orienting attitude/assumptions and one's train of actions.
-The letter lists the behaviors to prohibit; one's that lead away from holiness. But to give a list of prohibitions without revealing the active principle behind them is not very effective.
-"encourage and rebuke with authority" (not speaking from your own authority, but that of God's holy spirit; based on relationship and intended with love/integrity/sincerity, not moral superiority or its ironic inverse)
-Jesus as 'fulfilled Jew' --nothing new, but reasserting the *spirit* of God's convenant with his people (and all people, not only his chosen people): grace given by God for each person to hold; relational
-linkage of head knowledge (doctrine/logic/detail; 'saber' in Spanish), heart knowledge (feeling and attitude; experiential rather than verbally articulated; 'conocer' in Spanish) and action: each of these is tied together, like the seed and what fruits, like the innermost heart and the words and deeds that emerge, so too one's mental picture and one's orienting attitude/assumptions and one's train of actions.
-The letter lists the behaviors to prohibit; one's that lead away from holiness. But to give a list of prohibitions without revealing the active principle behind them is not very effective.
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