{"id":3513,"date":"2021-07-19T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3513"},"modified":"2021-07-17T12:01:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T18:01:38","slug":"question-and-answer-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3513","title":{"rendered":"Question-and-Answer Session?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I wrote yesterday<\/a> about The Chosen’s<\/a> handling of the call of Matthew where Jesus told Simon Peter, “Get used to different.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Chosen tackles the story of the woman at the well (John 4) in Season 1, Episode 8. The Gospel of John opens the account with this simple sentence:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He left Judea and departed again for Galilee, and he had to pass through Samaria. (John 4.3, 4, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He didn\u2019t \u201chave to\u201d pass through Samaria at all. Most Jews in that day went out of their way to avoid Samaria, crossing the Jordan, going up the east side, then coming back. So The Chosen captures the inevitable discussion (argument?) that the disciples must have had with Jesus about this different approach. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cForgive me, Teacher.\u201d Andrew snatches the map from Matthew and shows it to Jesus. \u201cIt\u2019s safer to go around Samaria by way of the Jordan and the Decapolis.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus smiles. \u201cDid you join me for safety reasons?\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut, Rabbi,\u201d Big James says, \u201cthey\u2019re Samaritans!\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus stops. \u201cGood observation. What\u2019s your point?\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRabbi, these were the people who profaned our temple with the dead bones. They hated us.\u201d John chimes in, \u201cThey fought against us with the Seleucids in the Maccabean wars. I haven\u2019t even spoken to a Samaritan\u2014\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd we destroyed their temple a hundred years ago,\u201d Jesus says. \u201cAnd none of you here was present for any of these things. Listen, if we are going to have a question-and-answer session every time we do something you\u2019re not used to, it\u2019s going to be a very annoying time together for all of us. …So, follow me.\u201d\u00a0 <\/em>(Text from The Chosen, Volume 1<\/a> by Jerry Jenkins)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember a conversation back in the early 70s with a black preacher. Someone asked him, \u201cWho would be a better missionary to, say, Harlem, in New York City? Is that something white missionaries should leave to black missionaries?\u201d He responded: \u201cJesus said to the Jewish apostles, \u2018You shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the uttermost part of the earth.\u2019 [Acts 1.8] Jews hated Samaritans\u2026and Gentiles. Now if you and I, both Gentiles, were in Jerusalem in those days, we wouldn\u2019t be sitting in the back of the bus. We wouldn\u2019t have been allowed on the bus! But Jesus sent all of us everywhere!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Get used to different. And \u201cfollow me\u201d means we don\u2019t engage Jesus in a question-and-answer session every time he asks us to do something we\u2019re not used to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. (Luke 9.23, NKJV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And a voice came to him, “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.” But Peter said, “Not so, Lord! For I have never eaten anything common or unclean.” And a voice spoke to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed you must not call common.” …Then he said to [Cornelius, the Roman centurion and his friends], “You know how unlawful it is for a Jewish man to keep company with or go to one of another nation. But God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean. (Acts 10.13 – 15, 28, NKJV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wrote yesterday about The Chosen’s handling of the call of Matthew where Jesus told Simon Peter, “Get used to different.” The Chosen tackles the story of the woman at the well (John 4) in Season 1, Episode 8. The Gospel of John opens the account with this simple sentence: He left Judea and departed … Continue reading Question-and-Answer Session?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-UF","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3513"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3516,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513\/revisions\/3516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}