Middle East, from the beggar to the king, the primary method of creating meaning is through the creative use of metaphor and story,” Bailey writes.7 What does this look like? When John the Baptist confronted the religious leaders, he didn’t lecture them about the flaws in their theology by saying, Your externalized, merit-based observance assumes a soteriology based on ethnocentric nationalism that will ultimately prove erroneous and ineffective. Rather, he bellowed: You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to
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