“Therefore everyone who hears these
words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his
house on the rock.” (Matthew 7:24 NIV)
More people these days feel an absence
in their lives, expressed as an acute desire for "something more," a
spiritual home, a community of faith.
But when they try to read the Bible, they end up throwing it across the
room. To me, this seems encouraging, a
good place to start, a sign of real engagement with the God who is revealed in
the Scripture. Others find it easy to
dismiss the Bible out of hand, as negative, vengeful, violent. I can only hope that they are rejecting the
violence-as-entertainment of movies and television on the same grounds, and
that they say a prayer every time they pick up a daily newspaper or turn on
CNN. In the context of real life, the
Bible seems refreshingly whole, an honest reflection on humanity in relation to
the sacred and the profane. I can't
learn enough about it, but I also have to trust what little I know, and
proceed, in faith, to seek God there.
-- Kathleen Norris in “Amazing Grace”
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