Musings: Notes From My Daybook

Thanks to my friend Don who passed along a link to the following website.  Richard Beck writes a perceptive piece on how defining our theology through the lens of death distorts our faith and practice.  So much of the time the conflict we have with others does not rest in the actual issue but rather in the assumptions and convictions that lay underneath the surface.

We must begin with a loving revealing God who meets us in the story of Israel and in the incarnation and who continues to live among us in the Spirit if we are to have any real hope of finding our way to Him and to each other.  And if such a statement raises concerns about the Bible I would suggest that if our task is listening to God, then the value of Scripture is only heightened when we stop thinking that the Bible is  statue and case law to be assembled to prove a point.  We honor Scripture when we allow it to do exactly what God intended it to do--point the way to Jesus Christ.