Love This Book - Part 4Sample

Week 44: Our readings for this week focus on Philemon, the runaway slave, and how the gospel intersects with this story. The main idea is how the gospel should transform our behavior and direct how society is structured. The earlier readings remind us about how slavery works in the older law, but there's nothing specifically in these passages that say to overthrow the concept of slavery. And yet in Philemon, you can see hints of it. This is how the Kingdom of God begins to intersect with corrupt secular social structures.