Beauty of Reading the Letters of Scripture as a Letter (followed with Galatians reading)

Plainfield Ponderings - Scripture Meditations · Nov 1, 2024 · 24m

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Ponder with me about reading the letters of Scripture as one, complete unit. The way we read Scripture today is so compartmentalized, and much different from how they were intended to be read. We read a few verses from this book, a few verses over here, a few verses over there...and that's not a bad thing but it's definitely not how they were read in the early church. They digested them as a full, complete letter and probably heard them dozens and even hundreds of times as they were read in their public assembly. There's an advantage to reading them that way. We can notice…