[None of the] explanations of how the Bible is the inspired word of God has ever inspired me to actually read it. Nor have they ever seemed to matter much in the way I use the Bible as a tool of pastoral ministry. What has mattered over the years is not my view of the abstraction of inspiration, but whether I am actually reading the Bible and helping others to read it as well. What has mattered is whether I expect to encounter God in its pages and the extent to which I can see my myself in the stories concerning people who have lived through the same fears that I have had, asked some of the same questions that I have asked and made some of the same stupid choices that I have made. When the Bible has done the work of holding up that dim glass of 1 Corinthians 13 and enabled me to see both the faint outline of the face of God and the reflection of all that I am and will be because of the redemptive work of God, it has mattered. In short, I have been far more influenced by the work the Bible has done than by the discussion of abstractions concerning what the Bible is. - David Rohrer, From Text to Sermon: Learning a Pastoral Hermeneutic
Posted on: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 05:49:57 +0000
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