Madison Church

Interpreting and Applying Ancient Rules in Our Current World

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Sinopsis

Have you ever scratched your head at the sight of an absurd law and wondered, "what on earth were they thinking?" Join us in a hearty laugh as we swap hilarious stories about peculiar laws in our society and in the Bible. Can you imagine not being able to honk your car horn after 9 PM near a sandwich shop in Arkansas, or being fined for letting your donkey nap in a bathtub in Arizona? Even stranger, the Sun Prairie municipal code won't let a bicycle proceed by momentum alone, with the rider's feet off the pedals!Shifting gears, we grapple with the enigmatic world of Biblical interpretation. The Bible, a text that inspires and confounds in equal measure, has left us all at a loss at some point - perhaps the slavery depictions in the Old and New Testaments come to mind? Guided by Paul's counsel to his apprentice Timothy, we wade through these murky waters, reminding ourselves that while the Bible was written for us, it wasn't written specifically to us. Our understanding, therefore