Hermeneutics 101

I have been quiet as I do not want to publish something irrationally, impulsively, without love and humility. I apologize for you faithful readers who yearn to be fed biblical truth in a manner of humble orthodoxy. I am delaying my next article for this very reason. I learned of something that happened recently that has left me significantly heartbroken, saddened, disappointed, disturbed, mad, and furious with a biblical anger. (For a hint at the issue at hand, see my latest Twitter update)

For the time being, I just ask that you would read, interpret and apply the following passage to you and your relationship to 1) Christ, and 2) your church — especially verse 28, which I have highlighted in bold. I hope you won’t read your own thoughts and ideas into this passage, but that you would rightfully interpret the text within its original immediate context and the larger historical-redemptive context in which this passage is located.

Galatians 3:23-29

23 Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed. 24 So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, 26 for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.