I was in the car today, listening to the local Christian radio station and the gentleman who was teaching was talking about how the pivotal moment in the book of Acts is the stoning of Stephen. I wish I could quote him, but unfortunately I don't have perfect auditory memory. The crux of his argument is that God was formerly doing something with the nation of Israel and then, God sets them aside to start something new with the Church. Stephen's remarks before he dies, in the mind of this teacher, were the finishing of God's work with Israel and then with Paul's vision of Jesus, that was beginning of God doing something new with the Gentiles. I immediately turned it off and started crying out to God in prayer.
This argument, that God is now doing something new has such a fundamental flaw in it that it makes me wonder, at the end of the day, is the Gentile church worshipping some other God than the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? This issue is that serious.
