Here’s the quote I meant to post yesterday. I think it kind of captures a postmodern searching mindset and where I’m coming from.<\/p>\n
“A evangelical speaker and a liberal bishop each sat down to read the bible. The evangelical speaker thanked God for the precious gift of the Holy Scriptures and pledged himself once again to proclaim them faithfully. “Thank you God”, he prayed, “that I am not like this poor liberal bishop who doesn’t believe your word, and seems unable to make his mind up whether or not Christ rose from the dead”. The bishop looked puzzled as he flicked through the pages of the bible and said “virgin birth, water into wine, physical resurrection. I honestly don’t know if I can believe these things Lord. In fact, I’m not even sure that I believe you exist as a personal being, but I am going to keep on searching”. I tell you that this liberal bishop rather than the other man went home justified before God. For everyone who thinks he has arrived at his destination has actually hardly begun, and he who continues searching is closer to his destination than he realises”.<\/p>\n
(Paraphrased from Luke 19:9-14, quoted from Dave Tomlinson, “The Post-evangelical”). <\/p>\n
Welcome to the life of a postmodern pilgrim. I’ll keep a review of the book for a podcast down the road, since there is more than just a few pastor types listening out there looking for good connecting points. This is a gem.<\/p>\n
You can check out more about Dave at the web site of St. Luke’s Church in North London<\/a> or about the book at Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n I have got to become an Amazon affiliate! Anyone out there done it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s the quote I meant to post yesterday. I think it kind of captures a postmodern searching mindset and where I’m coming from. “A evangelical speaker and a liberal bishop each sat down to read the bible. The evangelical speaker thanked God for the precious gift of the Holy Scriptures and pledged himself once again […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-organized-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}