The Bible is filled with figurative language. If God wants to be understood, why are there so many stories, verses, and images that can be left to the reader to interpret? What can we learn about what is important to God in all this?
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The Bible is filled with figurative language. If God wants to be understood, why are there so many stories, verses, and images that can be left to the reader to interpret? What can we learn about what is important to God in all this?
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Here are some articles that might interest anyone wanting to do humble engagement with people when they communicate. Moody is one of my lifelong heroes, a man who acted with directness and simplicity and who wanted to educate young people in the scriptures with power.
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It is not hard to be authentic, at least in theory. We intentionally cover up the authenticity with the plastic, hoping that no one sees the flawed me. In reality, that is what people are looking for. “Oh, Dan is broken too. Maybe there is hope for me.”
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What constitutes good preaching? A man once commented to me that such-and-such a pastor was the best pulpiteer in the city. It made me think: “Is a preacher like a Musketeer, a Buccaneer, or Puppeteer? Please now, a pulpiteer? Paul cut to the heart of this false thinking when he told his Greek, philosophy-loving friends that “Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.”
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