When Paul tried to describe to the Galatians what was involved in his call to “put on Christ,” he said that it meant that human divisions must disappear. In Christ there is no longer “Jew nor Greek,” “slave nor free,” “male nor female.” All are “one in Christ Jesus” (Gal. 3:26–29). That is what Jesus meant, and that is what the original Christ experience was, before the Bible came to be called the “Word of God,” before we became scripture’s defenders and before the creeds became the “essence of our faith.” It was also before any form of liturgy became the “only way to worship.”
