Thursday, June 28, 2007

Can contentment legitimately be applied to relational aspects of life?

In the last week of term I had to turn in the first chapter of my project and this is the question that I was investigating.
I have been doing exegetical work on the passages in which Paul uses the word contentment (Phil 4:11, 2 Cor 9:8 & 1 Tim 6:6).

And one of the questions arose in my mind was the fact that in each context, Paul writes of contentment in financial or material matters.

Can or should we apply a framework of contentment to areas outside of material matters?
This is where I am focusing my current work and thoughts.

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I've been making multi-layered/flavoured jelly this afternoon

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