Wednesday August 3 – Romans 10:1-21

Paul takes the next chapter to reinforce the hope that anybody, Jew or Gentile, can choose better in response to God’s choices. He says somebody has to be sent, proclaim, be heard and believed, so that people can choose better.

Our Presbyterian forebears preferred chapter 9 election by God, and our Methodist elders emphasized chapter 10 believing once hearing once proclaimed having been sent. These positions still seem unreconcilable to me – yet here we still are.

There’s also a note here of God shaming Israel by showing favour to a new bunch of people, to rouse them to jealousy, anger – and changed choices. God is still holding out hands to Israel and inviting them home.

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