“Once as you are”
Our pleasure and our duty, Though opposite before; Since we have seen his beauty, Are joined to part no more.
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“My son, don’t you see that all that I have is yours? Now come, celebrate with me.”
–Luke 15:31-32
“These tennis shoes are gonna grow outta me fast.”
Liv, age 6
“You open Your hand and satisfy the the desire of every living thing.”
–Psalm 145:16
“He has saved us and called us — not because of anything we have done, but because of His own purpose and grace”
–2 Timothy 1:9
“Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD understand it completely.”
–Proverbs 28:5
“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
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
“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.