A Reexamined Past - The Rev. Philip DeVaul

Paul believes that the Messiah did not just show up to bring justice to Israel, but in fact to the whole world, to every single person and all the inhabitants and all of the creation. God has brought justice through Jesus. This creates tension, not because Paul's Jewish siblings are bad, but because they're human and humans, we don't like change. We don't like when people mess with us. And we definitely don't like when people tell us to reexamine our past and have a different relationship with our past than we've had before. We get really protective of our history. We get really protective of how we became what we are. I remember when my wife and I had our first child and we were talking about how to actually raise this human in real life, not abstractly. Now here it is, what are you going to do? And I was the person who was saying, well, my parents did it this way and I turned out all right... I found myself being very protective of the things that I had been raised with, and the ways that I understood, because I felt nervous. If I was going to treat my child differently, what did that mean about my past? Was there something wrong with it? Was there something wrong with my parents and something wrong with me? You get nervous. We're seeing this played out in our country as we reexamine our history. There are people who think, don't look at our history like that, that makes me uncomfortable when you look at the breadth and the wholeness of the things that are true about us, let's just focus on the parts that make me feel good about myself. CLICK FOR FULL TRANSCRIPT