Stuck in the house ill at the moment ... not good, don't do ill too well, get too restless. Using the time to do some reading and planning - when my brain not fuzzy that is. Still reading The End of Words by Lischer as I didn't take it with me to SS. Here's two interesting quotes from the second chapter I've been pondering today:
"If scripture is ever again to be a living source for theology, those who practice theology [and preach] must become less preoccupied with the world that produced scripture and learn again how to live in a world scripture produces. This will be a matter of imagination, and perhaps of leaping."
Luke Timothy Johnson quoted on page 52
The preacher is like a gemologist who turns a precious stone this way and that in order to capture its brilliance, much in the way that rabbis sought to bring out the "perfection" of the text. The interpreter/preacher rotates the passage against the light, viewing it from every angle until it discloses the glory of God, which for the believer has already been revealed in the face of Jesus Christ.
page 58
