Tuesday, 22 April 2008
Posted by Bart on April 22, 2008
Today I read from Acts and 1Corinthians.
If you follow the link above you will see Will’s post and my comment below.
I am very bad about wanting to study rather than doing. It comes more naturally and is less risky to my pride. I think Jesus picked fishermen instead of church scholars so they would have less of a tendency to analyze and would be more likely to get to it. Lord, please help me to “Just do it” more often.
Yes, I realize the irony of drawing that comclusion from the theological disection of scriptures. 
Will said
I think Jesus picked fishermen instead of church scholars so they would have less of a tendency to analyze and would be more likely to get to it.
I hear this a lot, but also remember that the two passages in question deal with Paul rather than the fishers. And it’s Paul that’s credited with writing most of the New Testament. Paul spent years learning under the great Rabbi Gamaliel. So Paul was likely one of the most learned people in the early Christian movement! It would be hard to ‘unlearn’ what he was taught, and I am sure it influenced him.
Still, you’re point is well taken. Even Paul would have said that all that he gained was ‘rubbish’.