You may be tempted to read the letters written by the Apostle Paul.
My advice: Don’t. Not yet.
Not until you’ve soaked in the Gospels for a good while. And John’s letters. And James’s letter. And Peter’s letters. And maybe a good bit of the Old Testament.
Why? It’s easy to get things all turned around otherwise.
It’s easy, because of Paul’s logic and eloquence and personal story, to make Jesus about Paul instead of Paul about Jesus.
Paul would scold us for that.
But the church has split itself into hundreds of factions because it got things turned around, mostly about what Paul wrote.
Reading Paul is like handing a dangerous chemical: if you don’t handle it carefully, it can can be deadly to you and others.
So, stick with the Gospels. And the letters of John and James and Peter. For now, anyway.
(Even Peter struggled a bit with Paul’s writings…he writes about it!)
Grace and peace to you…
dw
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