The Word we study has to be
the Word we pray. My
personal experience of the
relentless tenderness of God
came not from exegetes,
theologians, and spiritual
writers, but from sitting still
in the presence of the living
Word and beseeching Him to
help me understand with my
head and heart His written
Word.
Sheer scholarship alone
cannot reveal to us the gospel
of grace. We must never allow
the authority of books,
institutions, or leaders to
replace the authority of
*knowing* Jesus Christ
personally and directly. When
the religious views of
interpose between us and the
primary experience of Jesus as
the Christ, we become
unconvicted and unpersuasive
travel agents handing out
brochures to places we have
never visited.
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