WHO IS A GENTILE?
WHO ARE YOU? A story is told about a Jewish man who lived in the midst of a predominately Catholic neighborhood. Every Friday he would barbecue a steak for his Sabbath eve dinner. But the aroma of his steak would invariably drift into the yards of his neighbors who observed the practice of eating fish instead of meat on Fridays. Not wanting to contend with this disruption of their tradition, his neighbors decided that the solution was to convert him. They worked long and hard on the Jewish man and finally he relented. He was brought to church where he was sprinkled with holy water and told, “You are no longer a Jew, you are now a Christian.” He returned home and the neighborhood rejoiced. But the following Friday, the neighbors were shocked to smell the distinctive aroma of barbecued steak wafting from the yard of the new convert. So they approached him and declared that he, too, should now observe the custom of eating fish on Fridays. “Ah, but you see, this is not a steak,” he respond
