a quote that reminds me of you to pass on...
"Spiritual
theology, using Scripture as text, does not present us with a moral code and
tell us “Live up to this”; nor does it set out a system of doctrine and say, “Think
like this and you will live well.”
The biblical way is to tell a story and in the telling invite: “Live into this—this is what it looks like to
be human in this God-made and God-ruled world; this is what is involved in
becoming and maturing as a human being.”
We do violence to the biblical revelation when we “use” it for what we
can get out of it or what we think will provide color and spice to our
otherwise bland lives. That always
results in a kind of “decorator spirituality” – God as enhancement. Christians are not interested in that;
we are after something far bigger. When we submit our lives to what we read in
Scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories, but our
stories in God’s. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find
themselves." -Eugene Peterson Eat This Book
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