“Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD understand it completely.”
–Proverbs 28:5
Blog, page 47
Doesn’t comprehending “insert the metal fitting into the buckle” preclude anyone who has no familiarity with a seatbelt?
“Seeking your own glory is like eating too much honey. It makes you sick.”
–Proverbs 25:27 paraphrase
“If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.”
–Proverbs 24:10
“Competitiveness: The wealth of nations”
Most cogent definition of contextualization I’ve read to date
Timothy Keller:
Contextualization is not — as is often argued — “giving people what they want to hear.”4 Rather, it is giving people the Bible’s answers, which they may not at all want to hear, to questions about life that people in their particular time and place are asking, in language and forms they can comprehend, and through appeals and arguments with force they can feel, even if they reject them. Sound contextualization means translating and adapting the communication and ministry of the gospel to a particular culture without compromising the essence and particulars of the gospel itself.
Three baseline American cultural narratives: “God” (17-mid 18th century) “Nation” (mid 18-20th) “Self” (present)
–Delbanco quoted by Tim Keller in Center Church
“We should not confuse populism with democracy”
–Brzezinski speaking on the Arab spring
Subject of the Bible
Tim Keller:
There are, in the end, only two questions to ask as we read the Bible: Is it about me? Or is it about Jesus?
Once this gets into your head, you begin to recognize everywhere in sermons, churches, curriculum, books, etc. which point of view someone is operating from.
“Saving faith is never less than intellectual assent, but it is always more than that”
– Tim Keller on Romans 10:9-10
“Our truth-allergic, experience-addicted populace wants transformation, without the loss of freedom and control associated with submission”
–Timothy Keller
Lots of Keller here lately, I know. But there is just so much good stuff to quote and remember.