Christians have argued about it for five hundred years.
Seen through Paul's first-century lens, the argument dissolves.
Read Paul through his own eyes, and find the common ground both sides have been looking for, in Him.
Read Paul through his own eyes, and find the common ground both sides have been looking for, in Him.
Calvinists and Arminians have read the same Bible for five centuries and arrived at different answers. Both can show you the verses. This short, readabel book proposes that the problem is not in the text, but in the lenses we bring to it, and invites you to read Paul through his own first-century Hebrew eyes.
Book One of the What Paul Saw series. Available in paperback, hardback and Kindle.
“Open your Bible to Ephesians chapter one. Read verses one through fourteen slowly. Don’t analyze. Don’t reach for your commentary. Don’t try to solve anything yet.
Just read it. And while you do, count something.
Count how many times Paul uses the phrases ‘in him,’ ‘in Christ,’ ‘in the beloved,’ ‘in whom.’
Go ahead. I’ll wait.”
From the Introduction, “A Conversation Worth Having”
Readers say they came away no longer stuck, at peace with a 500-year-old question, and with new respect for believers on the other side. Many finished it in an afternoon.
“No longer stuck!”
— Amazon reviewer
“Changed the lens through which I will read all of Paul’s writings from now on.”
— Amazon reviewer
A free 8-session study guide is available for group leaders, with one session per page and no theological training needed to lead.
One question about Paul, answered honestly and pastorally, Bible open. Never a sales pitch.
Keep your Bible open as you read.