God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
But it is far more common for the evangelical preacher to edit God’s Word: 1. By removing the text from its context, and using it to say what-ever the preacher likes, 2. By moralizing the text, so that it is reduced to an ethical maxim that fits any religion, 3. By using the text to promote hobby-horses, and 4. By dogmatic insistence that the text says things it does not truly say. This homiletical hocus-pocus has subtle roots such as the desire to be clever and popular or synthetically relevant or intellectually respectable or to make the gospel more acceptable. But most often God’s Word gets watered down by the preacher’s laziness. He simply will not do the hard work to engage and preach a text in its context.
To do anything less than commit ourselves completely to our Lord in simple trust during the troubling times in our lives is to insult His wisdom. To resist Him, question Him, doubt Him, or criticize what He allows in our lives is to deny that He is the only wise God, and claim that we are wiser than He.
Salt and pepper chicken well. Add paprika. Place in crockpot, add
bouillon cube and soup. Add water. Cook 8 hours on low setting. Serve over
flaky rice.
Posted to Bakery-Shoppe Digest V1 #480 by angstrom@juno.com (Angela L
Gilliland) on Dec 31, 1997
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