Let's Major In The Minors
Let's Major In The Minors? Really now? Teddy Jones offers us a trenchant analysis from God's word spoken to the prophet Obadiah centuries ago. Obadiah is one of these so called minor prophets and to make matters worse his writing contains only one chapter. The same is true for the four other Bible books that are only one chapter long. This has caused these books to be largely ignored as minor and not having much spiritual value. Pastor, Lecturer, Mentor and Theologian, Teddy A. Jones shows how inaccurate this perception is by pointing out in this exposition series that, although these books do not perhaps provide much in the way of a biography of each author – the content of what they spoke was not only vitally important to the peoples of that era, but they also raise very major issues that are absolutely relevant to believers today, thus the need to major in them and debunk the prejudicial nomencalture of minor. Teddy Jones is adamant that the message of the one chapter authors is relevant for the church today, and hence re-introduces these important books of the Bible to contemporary Christians. It is Ideal for use as a textbook as well as for personal study and corporate Bible Study. The popular advice, and contextually good advice is, "Stop Majoring In The Minors!” This book flies in the face of that advice.
Let's Major In The Minors reverses the script by challenging us to debunk the notion that the brevity of the five (5) books of the Bible that have only chapter relegates them to a lesser place of importance. These books though ‘minor’ contain major messages. In fact, this is an invitation to ponder the idea that given their brevity there is a clue to be pursued. The pearl inside this oyster is the fact that the weighty theological themes and Biblical core matters they highlight indicate clearly to us their importance to God who inspired the writers. Indeed, these “minor” chapters of the Bible present some major themes from serious spiritual leaders and thinkers‒issues of justice… and balance for the poor and downtrodden, true righteousness as opposed to institutional formalism, and living boldly and unapologetically for God in a hostile world…This work adds qualitatively to serious Christian thinking and application. This book pulls no punches and offers us no respite from dealing with injustice and other evils .
It confronts and challenges us, as God would, to treat with the issues of our times as He would! This work on the books of Obadiah, Philemon, Second and Third John and Jude represents a most important choice of subject from the rarely preached on sections of the Old and New Testament. Christians ignore sections of the Old and New Testament and these one chapter books are among some of the most neglected parts of the Bible. Majoring in the Minors focuses on Obadiah’s themes such as “overkill” and what Teddy Jones calls passive and possessive oppression. It focuses on the sin of pride in all the ways in which it presents itself in the life of persons including God’s people. It warns of the dangers and deadly venom of pride. It talks about relationships and an antidote to social sicknesses as it explores Philemon and the Johannine corpus and Jude. Some of the issues identified in this exposition are: injustice, pride, unfaithfulness, hypocrisy, corruption, the dismantling of slavery, hospitality, and arrogance.
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