When the “Rule” Says Reject…

Written By Mike Yager

Two strangers encounter one another along the road. By all religious and social custom they are not to interact, and yet they depart as siblings in Christ. To understand why is to understand who we are as those who claim to follow Jesus in a world of man-made borders.

Scripture & Quotations

  • Acts 8:26-40

  • Isaiah 56

  • Perhaps Philip, on the basis of his experience in Samaria, was able to recognize that God was doing a new thing to widen Philip’s previous understanding of the boundaries of the people of God.

    - Christopher B. Hayes & Richard B. Hayes - The Widening of God’s Mercy: Sexuality Within the Biblical Story

Herbert Boeckl, Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch, Angel’s Chapel, Seckau Appey, Styria, Austria, 1952-60

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