Four Layers of Context

There are four layers of context that are helpful to internalize when we're reading any of the new testament letters. One is where do the letters appear in the unified story that leads to jesus? They fit in at a specific moment at the story. A second layer is the cultural context, both jewish and greek and roman. The situational context is a third layer. And then there's just looking at each letter. Next week, we'll continue our discussion, part two of our conversation, live and dallas.com.