Romans 13  

Posted by BT

Not to be a beggar, but I had asked for some insight on Romans 13 from any of you readers, and I received very little. Thanks, Brandon, for the articles you posted. Here is one of my favorite quotes from those articles: "The church must live as a sign of the coming complete kingdom of Jesus Christ; but since that kingdom is characterized by peace, love and joy it cannot be inaugurated in the present by chaos, hatred and anger."

This is the passage our small group is about to discuss, and I'd really like to hear what some of you think about it. Feel free to respond in the comments section or by email.

You can read the chapter by clicking here.

Thanks in advance.

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This entry was posted on 04 January 2006 at 11:39 AM . You can follow any responses to this entry through the comments feed .

1 comments

John  

Brad,

One thing I think we must strive hard to remember is that Paul is writing to a very specific people in a very specific context. As "modern" minded people we are prone to make a formula or universal principle out of everything in the Scripture. We seem to believe that Paul was thinking of us as he wrote the passage and was trying to say something that applies to every situation. He was writing to the Roman church.

I'm not saying that we can't take anything away from the passage but that we probably can't apply it in a one to one fashion either.

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