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Month: June 2011

It’s Almost July???

This year is passing quickly. I continue to struggle with posting to this blog on a regular basis. I have not given up but I do not completely understand by inability… unwillingness … to take the time and energy to write about many things that are on my mind. I have at least four drafts that date back to early this year which I have not completed. Perhaps it is just a phase of my journey. At any rate I am writing today.

(After I wrote the above paragraph, I continued to write some more. For some reason my computer froze up and I lost everything except the above. Perhaps there are dark forces working to keep me from posting.)

Theology – the preeminent question

“If you were able to follow Jesus for the three years (or whatever) of his ministry, life, death and resurrection, do you believe you would conclude that Jesus believed the same version of … doctrine … as you do today?”

That question applies to all of theology. In fact, it is the preeminent question of the Christian Life. I do not say the preeminent question of Christian theology, but of the Christian life, because in the end, theology must lead to the lives that we live. Theology must be a description of REALITY. Of real life. Just as mathematical propositions must eventually let the space shuttle fly or a heart monitor give accurate readings, so our theology must prepare us for death, and for the lives we lead before death. Our theology must make us human beings, husbands, fathers, teachers, neighbors, members of a community, and so on.

via IMonk Classic: The Preeminent Question | internetmonk.com.