The man who studies theology, and especially he who studies dogmatics, might watch carefully whether he increasingly does not think in the third rather than the second person. You know what I mean by that. This transition from one to the other level of thought, from a personal relationship with God to a merely technical reference, usually is exactly synchronized with the moment that I no longer can read the word of Holy Scripture as a word to me, but only as the object of exegetical endeavors. This is the first step toward the worst and most widespread ministers’ disease. For the minister frequently can hardly expound a text as a letter which has been written to him, but he reads the text under the impulse of the question, How would it be used in a sermon?
Helmut Thielicke

Q73 How is the Word to be read

This entry is part 73 of 82 in the series Frequently Asked Questions for new Christians

Frequently Asked Questions for new Christians

Q73 How is the Word to be read 73 Q How is the Word to be read and heard that it may become effectual to salvation? A That the Word may become effectual to salvation, we must attend to it with diligence, # Pr 8:34 preparation, # 1Pe 2:1,2 and prayer, # Ps 119:18 receive it with faith, # Heb 4:2 and love, # 2Th 2:10 lay it up into our hearts, # Ps 119:11 and practise it in our lives. # Jas 1:25

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