What did Paul mean when he wrote "the present form of this world is passing away"? What might that look like? What structures need to change? How can we change them? Did Jesus say the world is going to end?
"Changing Structures" is a reflection based on 1 Corinthians 7:29-31.
I mean, brothers and sisters, the appointed time has grown short; from now on, let even those who have wives be as though they had none, and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had no possessions, and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away.
References
Congressional Research Service. “Poverty in the United States in 2020.” Accessed January 18, 2024. https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R47030
Rowland, Christopher. “Ecology and Eschatology in the Second Temple Period.” In The Oxford Handbook of The Bible and Ecology, edited by Hilary Marlow and Mark Harris. New York City: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Sampley, J. Paul. “I Corinthians.” In New Interpreter’s Bible, Volume IX. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2015.
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