Welcome Carol
Carol, welcome and good to hear from you. But what a question to be hit with first thing before coffee "what is the first word that comes into your mind" to describe what it means to me to be a Christian?
It was "everything", actually. I suspect given a little time, and actually being awake, other words will come but that was first.
And thanks for the mention of Jephthah. I knew he was part of the OT cast (of thousands!) - but have just read in Judges 11 that:
"Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior. His father was Gilead; his mother was a prostitute. Gilead's wife also bore him sons, and when they were grown up, they drove Jephthah away. "You are not going to get any inheritance in our family," they said, "because you are the son of another woman." So Jephthah fled from his brothers and settled in the land of Tob, where a group of adventurers gathered around him and followed him."
Pleasant family! And Jephthah is one of the characters we are going to find out about in this year's BSF study of "Israel & the Minor Prophets".
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