Jesus was a Jew.He was born and raised a Jew.He observed all the obligations of a Jew.When he began his ministry, he only
ministered to Jews.After his ascension and empowerment of his
followers to continue what he had started, the
natural result was a ministry only to Jews.Then as people like Paul of Tarsus tried to
bring Jesus to Gentiles, he knew following Jesus was
synonymous with being a Jew. But there was a
problem. Gentiles might like Jesus but they didn’t
like circumcision.So, Christianity faced the question of
whether they could move in another direction from
what Christ said and did.Can Christians change Jesus?
Scripture
MatthewChapter:
15
21Jesus
left and went to the territory near the cities of
Tyre and Sidon. 22Suddenly a
Canaanite womanc
from there came out shouting, "Lord and Son of Davidd
, have pity on me! My daughter is full of demons."
23Jesus did not say a word. But the woman
kept following along and shouting, so his disciples
came up and asked him to send her away. 24Jesus
said, "I was sent only to the people of Israel! They
are like a flock of lost sheep." 25The
woman came closer. Then she knelt down and begged,
"Please help me, Lord!" 26Jesus
replied, "It isn't right to take food away from
children and feed it to dogs."e 27"Lord,
that's true," the woman said, "but even dogs get the
crumbs that fall from their owner's table."
28Jesus
answered, "Dear woman, you really do have a lot of
faith, and you will be given what you want." At that
moment her daughter was healed.
Prayer
Lord, as the Church moved ahead after your ascension
it had to face the need to make some changes.Your followers prayed to the Holy Spirit and
accepted a change.Help me to be open to growing change in my
life. Amen
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