Reading from the End: In a previous blog post, I wrote about moving "From the Letter of the Law to the Spirit of the Word." I wrote about how children move from seeing the letters c-a-t to seeing the word "cat" and, ultimately, see past the letters on the page to the image of a cat in their minds automatically. I shared how John Behr compared that to the apostle Paul's encounter with Christ, after which he moved from death-dealing law enforcement to a life-giving gospel. My friend and teacher, John Behr, offered a second analogy to follow up on how the first Christians' reading of Scripture was turned upside down by their experience of the ...