In an era where some Christians on the forefront of social justice and peacemaking advocacy, while simultaneously other Christians are running the department of war or promoting racial homogeny, it has never been more important for Evangelical Christians to wrestle with the questions, “what is the center of the Christian faith?” and “how is God known?” These are the questions we are engaging with in this four part series on “reframing the center.” While many western Christians may answer these questions with a simple, “the Bible tells me so,” there are a myriad of problems with this approach, the primary one being that the Bible does not speak consistently about God. This is a problem for the western mind, but it wasn’t a problem to the writers of the Bible, because they took a much more dialogical, paradoxical, and narrative-driven approach to their holy texts. In this episode, Matt lays out some of the ways that a Hebraic reading of the Scriptures changes the questions we ask about the text, and fundamentally reshapes how we use the Bible for theology and community formation. 

Resources Referenced: Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus and Reading the Bible with Rabbi Jesus by Louis Tverberg, Jesus and the Law of Moses by Paul Sloan

Interlude Music: Vision (Instrumental Version) by Lu’

Theme Song: Believe by Posthumorous

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