John explores the question posed to Jesus by the Jerusalem leadership about his authority using material from Rob Bell’s “Velvet Elvis”. In doing so he suggests that not only was Jesus acting as a revisionist Rabbi (You have heard it said, but I say to you….) but in giving the early church the power to bind and loose, gave the early church and its successors the authority and the responsibility to continue to re-read the meaning for scripture so that we might continue to determine what it means to follow the way of Christ in our ever changing world.