Class 10/7/09

During lecture on Wednesday we covered how Jesus operated in Community, Worship, Mission and Leadership. The one thing that was most profound amidst covering that material was the way Jesus came in and challenged the paradigm that held Rome as the enemy, and instead asserted that Satan was their enemy thus, in order to be people of God, they no longer considered people their enemies but learned how to "love" instead and to acknowledge who their real enemy was. I also thought it was really interesting how Jesus established leadership and community around a family structure, placing God the Father as the "patriarch" as this would have been contrary (as the father would have been the patriarch) and at the same time, familiar to how the people were already living (highly familial).