Going to the dogs.....

We have two dogs. We got the first one at 8 Mts. old from a family where she has been very much neglected. We renamed her Netanya. She is a pure bread Bichon Frise and looks like it. We got our second Dog later on, at 2 yer. old. We kept her name Sweetpea. She came with papers from the kennel club that certify her as a pure bread Bichon Frise. Turned out she is not. She is a mix Bichon and Poodle. A Bichon wannabe......

The other day I was observing the two, remembering their history in our house. When Sweetpea arrived, Netanya did not receive her warmly, in a matter of fact she was down right hostile to the point of terrorizing Sweetpea. And I got to thinking, Netanya is used to be the only kahoonah in our house. By now she thinks, either she is a human, or we are Bichons. She somehow senses that Sweetpea is different. In her rants and raves could Netanya be saying to Sweetpea: "Hey, you are not like us, you are different, you do not belong here. If you stay here and we follow your ways there is the danger for us to become poddles like you.....You are not welcomed here go and find yourself another home where they have poodles like you...can't you see, if you stay here after a while we are all going to become mutts......

Today, of course, it is different. Both dogs learned to live together under the same roof, eat the same food, share the same toys, and follow the same house rules.

The assemblies that the Apostle Paul started were comprised of Gentiles and Jews. Were they housed in two separate buildings, one for Jew and the other for Gentile? When he admonished Jew and Gentile to "come as you are," what did Paul mean by that?

Was he at all concerned "how will it play in Jerusalem?"

Did Paul knew how to pronounce "bilateral ecclesiology?"