Wednesday 9 November 2011

READING SCRIPTURE

Fight a common disjunction (the 'critical' vs the the devotional reading of Scripture)
"My response, forcefully put, is to resist this disjunction, to eschew it, to do everything in your power to destroy it ... when you read 'devotionally', keep your mind engaged; when you read 'critically' (ie with more diligent and focused study, deploying a panoply of 'tools'), never, ever forget whose Word it is. The aim is never to become a master of the Word, but to be mastered by it." (91)
That is SO true. One of the biggest problems with theological education in the last fifty years is that too often we have failed to help our students to "get" this. We've allowed them to develop schizophrenic lives where intellectual understanding and lived faith fail to meet. And that has been killing churches

http://bigbible.org/sansblogue/

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