We have Geoff Holsclaw capping off our May Conversation today with Against Revelation; or On the Power of Gods Word: -- Why don’t we follow this pattern of power when we talk about Scripture, linking the authority of Scripture to the power of God? Probably because most of us have lost an understanding of spiritual power in our own lives. We have lost an understanding of the power encounters at work in our daily interactions. Probably because we are a people of the ‘excluded middle’, forgetting the realm between God and humanity, the contested spiritual realm requiring power, not information. And because of this we reduce the power of Scripture to the mere power of facts and information. As Paul Hiebert says, “As a Westerner [in India], I was used to presenting Christ on the basis of rational arguments, not by evidences of his power in the lives of people who were sick, possessed and destitute” (“The Flaw of the Excluded Middle”). It is for these reasons that I feel the need to be “against revelation” as the fundamental category for understanding Scripture and its authority in our lives. Instead, let us think through and live into the power of God’s Word. -- Full post here: missioalliance.org/against-revelation-on-the-power-of-gods-word/
Posted on: Wed, 28 May 2014 13:50:58 +0000
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