Series:  Fear the 0f Other

Title:  Sheep and GoatsLast week we began to look at Fear of the Other through the lens of Acts 10 where Peter was stretched beyond his borders with the Gentile Cornelius. Peter showed us that we can’t “call any man impure.” But what about passages like Matthew 25 where Jesus Himself seems to construct an “us vs. them” caste system where he uses the images of sheep and goats?  Isn’t this passage a sacred sanction to categorize people? Or is this story an old fashioned finger-wagging to the 1st century religious machine that denied the Gentiles a place in the story of God? Our study this week is called - Sheep and Goats.