ROLE RETRIEVAL: MEN AND WOMEN IN WORSHIP (15)
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 11:1-16
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Role Retrieval: Men and Women in Worship (15)
Robert Dawson
1 Corinthians 11:1-16
I found this rummaging around in the house the other day. Does anybody know what it is? Yes. It is a cassette adapter for a portable CD player. This was for folks who couldn't afford a CD player for the car back in the day. You would take a portable CD player, plug this into the headphone jack and then put the cassette tape into your player. My kids had no idea what it was. I'm not even sure they know what a cassette tape is! Talk about out of date and useless today!
There are times we have the same thoughts about customs and traditions that we have about a portable CD adapter for your automobile's cassette deck, useless and outdated. We look at things from the past and think, that is where they belong...in the past because they are so far removed from our current culture and mindset they just don't make sense to us today.
Unfortunately, that is how some people approach the Bible and some of its teachings. They see it as outdated and useless, relics of a day gone by. To be honest, one of the struggles we have in reading the Bible is because it is couched in terms of a culture and time much different from our own. That can make the task of Biblical interpretation a little more difficult. In Biblical Interpretation...
- You seek to understand the author's message to that very first audience.
- The Bible was written within certain time periods and cultural contexts. We want to find out the original meaning for them.
- Sometimes that requires us to dig a little deeper because the problem or historical context was unique to them. It was culturally relevant to them and while some things connect across cultures and centuries that is not always the case.
- Once we know what was being communicated to them we must ask ourselves, ''What is the eternal/biblical principle in this passage?'' The cultural expression of that truth may not be translatable or applicable to our day ...
Robert Dawson
1 Corinthians 11:1-16
I found this rummaging around in the house the other day. Does anybody know what it is? Yes. It is a cassette adapter for a portable CD player. This was for folks who couldn't afford a CD player for the car back in the day. You would take a portable CD player, plug this into the headphone jack and then put the cassette tape into your player. My kids had no idea what it was. I'm not even sure they know what a cassette tape is! Talk about out of date and useless today!
There are times we have the same thoughts about customs and traditions that we have about a portable CD adapter for your automobile's cassette deck, useless and outdated. We look at things from the past and think, that is where they belong...in the past because they are so far removed from our current culture and mindset they just don't make sense to us today.
Unfortunately, that is how some people approach the Bible and some of its teachings. They see it as outdated and useless, relics of a day gone by. To be honest, one of the struggles we have in reading the Bible is because it is couched in terms of a culture and time much different from our own. That can make the task of Biblical interpretation a little more difficult. In Biblical Interpretation...
- You seek to understand the author's message to that very first audience.
- The Bible was written within certain time periods and cultural contexts. We want to find out the original meaning for them.
- Sometimes that requires us to dig a little deeper because the problem or historical context was unique to them. It was culturally relevant to them and while some things connect across cultures and centuries that is not always the case.
- Once we know what was being communicated to them we must ask ourselves, ''What is the eternal/biblical principle in this passage?'' The cultural expression of that truth may not be translatable or applicable to our day ...
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