This was a very engaing sermon. I was glad to ask questions, and it gave me a lot to think about.

It had not struck me before how it must have been a real struggle for Paul to wrench away from the orthodoxy of his original Jewish views, and to live out a completely fresh revelation.

It left me to thinking about how he must have evaluated the rituals he was used too. I’m sure this was difficult. Maybe he found the communion something to ponder over.

It’s amazing how even today how rites and practices are ‘taken for granted’ in Church life, and how they might take the place of ‘seeking to only know Christ’.

Some are hard to drop too because they give a sort of structure which may have been helpful once, but have been grown out of now we are ‘older’.

PJ