Sermon Tone Analysis

Let's Review

If you recall, about three weeks ago we started our discussion about the Shabbat.

We spent some time exploring how Christians and Jews all agree: keeping a Shabbat is important.

We also said that the 4th commandment is just as foundation to society as any of the other Ten Commandments.

And we proved that by showing the personal societal changes that happens as a result of honoring God's Shabbat:

Theological Game Changer

Socially Liberating

Family Strengthening

Domestically Advanced

Some people really struggled with the message because they wanted me to tow a hard line either for a Sunday Shabbat or Saturday Shabbat.

I heard that chatter that I am terribly inconsistent.

I am not upset with that chatter, really it is quiet flattering.

Why is it flattering.

Two reasons.

First, I like to think that I am about as consistent as Yeshua who refuses a rich young ruler entrance into the kingdom of God who basically has kept God's law but yet allows a convicted criminal dying on a Roman excecution stake entrance into the kingdom.

So, yes, about the same level of consistency and unpredictability as Yeshua.

Secondly, Jewish hermeuntics influence my interpretation and applicaiton of the Scritpures.

hermeneutics.

The discipline that studies theories of interpretation.

The term hermeneutics was first used with respect to interpretive methods and discussions of biblical interpretation; now the term has a broader use as the theory and art of interpreting any text.

This broader philosophical consideration of hermeneutics has introduced some tensions into more traditional modes of interpreting biblical texts, but it also has produced fruitful discussions on the act of reading generally, the nature and authority of texts, and the relationship between theory and practice.