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The Renewal We Need
written at Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Writing
in the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, David Wells explains
what our church and our culture need:
"The renewal of which we stand in need, I
believe, is of both the understanding of truth and of our knowledge of the God
of that truth. It is not one or the other but it is the one and the other. This
written Word, this Word of dignity, accosts us because it is true in and of
itself and because, as true, it is the vehicle through which we are summoned to
stand before the God of that truth. It is by this Word that he, in fact,
intrudes upon us, invades our private space, demands that our choices conform
with his, and commands that we stand out as those who belong to another age and
time, one which is eternal. It is this hearing, in fact, which will reintroduce
the very unconventionality which is so conspicuous by its absence in our
culturally conventional kind of believing today."
The Renewal We Need
written at Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Writing
in the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, David Wells explains
what our church and our culture need:
"The renewal of which we stand in need, I
believe, is of both the understanding of truth and of our knowledge of the God
of that truth. It is not one or the other but it is the one and the other. This
written Word, this Word of dignity, accosts us because it is true in and of
itself and because, as true, it is the vehicle through which we are summoned to
stand before the God of that truth. It is by this Word that he, in fact,
intrudes upon us, invades our private space, demands that our choices conform
with his, and commands that we stand out as those who belong to another age and
time, one which is eternal. It is this hearing, in fact, which will reintroduce
the very unconventionality which is so conspicuous by its absence in our
culturally conventional kind of believing today."
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Knowing
What matters supremely, therefore, is not
in the last analysis, the fact that I know God,
but the larger fact which underlies it --
the fact that He knows me.
