Mark Rathel’s commentary on this week’s lesson, “Peter: Openness”, starts with a mention of how easy or difficult it is for us to accept new ideas, then he dives into the lesson context of how Jews were not open to acceptance of Gentiles.Don Raney’s commentary goes further saying, “’new’ is seen as evil”, with respect to personal religious beliefs.
Stereotyping came to mind as I studied the opening material for the lesson. A set of questions to test positive and negative stereotyping is given on this site. Think about starting the lesson with a discussion of stereotyping. That in itself may be a test of how open we are to new ideas!
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