Wee Frizz said some stuff that encouraged me and reminded me of this post from Feb 2011 so thought it was worth posting it again… I feel reassured that these thoughts are not completely new…
I’ve heard a lot of Christian talks in my lifetime. It seems that in a fair number of those talks, the idea that the bible and that the gospel are explosive (or could be so) featured so heavily as to have been engrained in my head.
I’m just wondering… Is the bible meant to be ‘dynamite’? Is the gospel?
Its just… well, when I think about it, the idea of the bible of the gospel exploding in a great big BANG doesn’t seem to fit. There is something slow and steady about scripture, something growing, something expanding. Like sunrise or sunset – where you can’t quite tell the moment where they begin and end.
The whole smell of the Jewish culture in the Old Testament, the simplicity with which churches met and began to grow in the New Testament… Yes, there are moments of great drama and ‘explosion’, but is…
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