Quote and Comment
Working through some of my unpublished academic work getting ready for some presentations of the nature and authority of Scripture tonight. I ran across this quote from The Church's Bible by Darrell Jodock:
No contemporary theory of the authority of the Bible can assume that a person will be convinced of the Bible's authority apart from the participation in the community of faith. As Jaroslav Pelikan observed after hearing his eight-year-old daughter sing. "Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so," the lyrics of the children's song were incorrect for her. She had not read the Bible. She knew that Jesus loved her becasue her mother, her father, her Sunday-school teacher, her pastor, and others in the Christian community had told her so. Only later would she come into contact with the Bible.
If, as the old saying goes, "the only Bible many people will ever read is you," is true--and I believe that it is--then just how critical is it that the community of faith take our witness to justice, to values, to hope, and to the gospel?
Carson Reed
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