Worship issues! The preacher in Ecclesiastes reminds us, “There is no new thing under the sun” (Eccl. 1:9–10). Beginning with Cain and Abel (Gen. 4), the world has never lacked for differences of belief and practice in matters of worship and moral purity. Why should we be surprised that God’s people in the first century were struggling with problems like divorce and remarriage and worship issues (cf. Matt. 19:3ff; John 4:20)? These ancient questions sound remarkably contemporary. Without rebuking
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