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Here is a link to an article that just appeared in the Lexington-Herald Leader by Rich Copley. http:\/\/www.kentucky.com\/2012\/10\/06\/2361867\/rich-copley-asbury-professor-featured.html<\/p>\n

Two things about this article: 1) I don\u2019t teach at Asbury University (my wife does); 2) It is the view of Robert Orlando that \u201cTo put it literally, it was Paul saying, if you\u2019re Jewish, you can follow Jesus because you\u2019re a Jew. You have a birthright to do it. But if you were a Gentile, you had to pay a fee, an entrance fee, to be allowed the same treatment as the Jewish faith.\u201d My view would be that this IS totally incorrect. Paul is making a collection to help the poor in Jerusalem and he hopes it will bind his congregations to the mother church. He never suggests that Gentiles have to pay a fee to follow Jesus. Indeed, Paul would completely repudiate such a notion because in his view salvation and following Jesus comes through believing, not through some fee or even through a direct and cordial connection with the Jerusalem Church. <\/p>\n

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