Not in the mysterious studied, but the obvious lived.

I had to grab my pen and start writing quickly yesterday during our worship service.

More thoughts on a needed change in perspective and perception in evangelicalism.

We are the studiers, the “students of the Word,” blah, blah, blah. We will study and find the answers. We will find the secrets and resolve the mysteries. And we will have arrived.

But where have we arrived? We– the professing Church – are a mess. When will we honestly, biblically question our methodology?

It seems we believe that in practice we still have room to grow, but intellectually we pretty much have things figured out.

But have we so easily bridged the gap between the heavens and the earth?

“My thoughts are not your thoughts, and my ways are not your ways,” declares the LORD. “Just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts are higher than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:8-9 GW).

We are no where close to having arrived, neither intellectually nor experientially.

So much distance between the earth and the heavens, our thoughts and ways and God’s thoughts and ways. But our knowledge-based methodology has puffed us up and we have lost our depth perception.

(1 Corinthians 8:1 ESV) Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up.

Much that is hidden from us in that great expanse between Earth and Heaven is consequently revealed, not in the mysterious studied, but in the obvious lived.

God gives a thought; we respond in life. . .now!

We need to live the obvious and hang it all on two simple instructions.

(Matthew 22:37-40 KJV) Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. (38) This is the first and great commandment. (39) And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. (40) On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

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