Learning As I Go: Advent Love

Christy Bass Adams Guest Columnist “Church” for the Old Testament followers wasn’t how we view it today. Once a week, they attended the local synagogue and heard scripture read from one of the Old Testament writings. Sometimes from the Torah (first five books) and other times from the writings of the prophets. Followers did not have their own personal scroll of the recorded writings; they depended on the rabbis for the weekly readings. The followers of God were bound to the law, recor