The Religious Leader Is The Most Untrustworthy

If We Don't Understand How Metaphor Works We Will Misunderstand Most Of What We Read In The Bible. No Matter How Carefully We Parse Our Hebrew And Greek Sentences, No Matter How Precisely We Use Our Dictionaries And Trace Our Etymologies, No Matter How Exactly We Define The Words On The Page, If We Do Not Appreciate The Way A Metaphor Works We Will Never Comprehend The Meaning Of The Text.

The Gospel Is Never About Everybody Else; It Is Always About You, About Me. The Gospel Is Never Truth In General; It's Always A Truth In Specific. The Gospel Is Never A Commentary On Ideas Or Cultures Or Conditions; It's Always About Actual Persons, Actual Pains, Actual Troubles, Actual Sin; You, Me; Who You Are And What You've Done; Who I Am And What I've Done.

A Person Has To Get Fed Up With The Ways Of The World Before He, Before She Acquires An Appetite For The World Of Grace.

No Life Of Faith Can Be Lived Privately. There Must Be Overflow Into The Lives Of Others.

O God, When My Faith Gets Overladen With Dust, Blow It Clean With The Wind Of Your Spirit. When My Habits Of Obedience Get Stiff And Rusty, Anoint Them With The Oil Of Your Spirit. Restore The Enthusiasm Of My First Love For You.