I know. 15 weeks on the same book. But when more than fifteen of your scholar and pastor friends are invited and choose to write an essay as a tribute to you, you don’t brush it aside with an email “thanks” and be done with it. I have chosen to relish each essay by reading one per week and dropping observations in this newsletter. The book: Nijay Gupta, Tara Beth Leach, Matt Bates, and Drew Strait,
Thanks, Scot, for this Back to Basics reminder. I resonated with virtually every word, from being the quickest on my feet at age 8 in sword drills to reading the Bible two hours a day in college, absorbing content but not really engaging Jesus' invitation to "follow him." It has taken a lifetime to strip away all that "good stuff" and get down to the fundamental basic fact that God's story is a story of constant, often-unrequited love. Often as a good parent, God has found it necessary to discipline those who deliberately ignored that relationship of love. But in the end it is LOVE that endures - and should control my often-unloving life. Big Sigh. My current writing project is an effort to capture even a little bit God's love story from Gen 1 to Rev 22.
Thanks, Scot, for this Back to Basics reminder. I resonated with virtually every word, from being the quickest on my feet at age 8 in sword drills to reading the Bible two hours a day in college, absorbing content but not really engaging Jesus' invitation to "follow him." It has taken a lifetime to strip away all that "good stuff" and get down to the fundamental basic fact that God's story is a story of constant, often-unrequited love. Often as a good parent, God has found it necessary to discipline those who deliberately ignored that relationship of love. But in the end it is LOVE that endures - and should control my often-unloving life. Big Sigh. My current writing project is an effort to capture even a little bit God's love story from Gen 1 to Rev 22.
I bought the book and am really loving it. Thank you for taking the "15 weeks" highlighting this excellent work.