The Insidious Infection of Love

Lev 14- We use medicine in our modern society to be purified and cleansed. But Hebrews used community as a healing agent, a short time away from community and a return to society signified (and more than a signal, possibly effected?) the individual's healing. Community heals! 
-- 14:3- both people and houses can have this "infection" tsara'ath (leprosy). It simply means insidious infection. Isn't that what the church eventually becomes to the Roman Empire and to all prevailing power structures of this world? The unstoppable spread of God's insidious love and his relentless pursuit of all people looks like mildew or an infectious disease to those in power who have the most to lose, but for those who have nothing to lose but their own life, find the abundant life waiting do them in God's family. Community heals. Tsara'ath - the Gospel is an infection. 

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