When you reapĀ theĀ harvestĀ of your land, do not reap toĀ theĀ very edges of your field or gatherĀ theĀ gleanings of your harvest.Ā Leave them forĀ theĀ poor and forĀ theĀ foreigner residing among you.Ā I amĀ theĀ LordĀ your God. (Leviticus 23:22) If you’ll permit me, I’d like to offer one more thought about evangelism before we press on to other topics. And while Leviticus may be a strange place to go for outreach advice, it’s where I am in my yearly Bible-reading plan. Leviticus is never an…
I am the Lord your God, who has set you apart from the nations. You must therefore make a distinction between clean and unclean animals and between unclean and clean birds. Do not defile yourselves by any animal or bird or anything that moves along the groundāthose that I have set apart as unclean for you. You are to be holy to me because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart…