I just got my first issue of "Every Thought Captive" in the mail (July/Aug 2005), put out by the Highlands Study Center. Good stuff. Here's from "A Culture of Crows," on the parable of the sower, seed and soil...
"The notion that we should create shallow and rocky soil to attract the lost, and then when they spring up we transplant them has been a miserable failure, just as the parable teaches. Shallow soil may create many budding plant, but death is just around the corner.
"Which means, in turn, that we must deply cultivate the ground, building His culture. We seek to build godly cutures not simply for the sake of the godly, but also for the sake of the lost, to drive away the crows."
And this from "How to Read the Good Book."
"We will only find [Jesus in the Bible] when we understand the big stories, when we admit that the Bible is full of tyupes that give us a unified story. Jesus is the second Adam. Jesus is the bread which comes down from heaven. He is the Groom, the Shepherd, the Gardener, the Door, the Word, the Image.... we are the Bride, the Sheep, the vies, the Body. We are the beloved.... The goal here isn't to escape an ordered understanding of God's Word, but to enter into it, to see that that order is three-dimensional. The Word, don't forget, took, on flesh. To put it another way, we need to read the Word of God like Trinitarians. We reject the cacophony of the many. We reject the lifelessness of the one. We embrace the beauty of the harmony. And we dance with the Groom."
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