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Your blog is his blog is my blog
I've been wanting to blog again for some time now... and since I can't seem to write something that satisfies myself, I'll cut and paste another blog I really enjoyed reading.
I read the blog from another blog (Jason Clark's Blog) which I got to know of from another person's blog (Sivin Kit's Blog
Enjoy the excerpt from Jason Clark's Blog
Winn Griffin - Blog Hero
Winn Griffin's Blog
Today we salute and honor Winn Griffin. Who is Winn? Exactly, most of you will never have heard of him. Winn is on my doctoral programme, but already has a doctorate. He is the embodiment of learning and growing.
He is also the real author of "Power Evangelism" and most of John Wiimber's books and materials, when he was employed as Wimber's researcher and writer. Winn has the dryest, funniest sense of humor, has more life experience than 5 people together, and is an amazing thinker, theologian, and writer. You can download a piece of his most recent writing here
You can read an extract in the rest of this post...
"The church’s understanding of the story of God in Scripture is puny and for the most part seriously fragmented. Understanding the whole story is not a concept that is celebrated in the church at the beginning of the twenty-first-century. One of the primary reasons for not knowing the overarching story of Scripture is the way we have come to use it. Individuals and the church have developed the malignant disease of versitis (prooftexting), which has grown to epidemic proportions. We read and quote Scripture ad nauseam in small fragments we call verses. It is rarely read as a whole complete story from beginning to end. Most, if not all, of our reading of Scripture only reinforces a belief that the Bible is just a collection of little nuggets that we can choose from when we find them helpful. We need to stop memorizing verses of Scripture and then quoting them as proof texts as we brutally tear them from their God-given context and then order them in a human fashion, as if we could do a better job than the Spirit in putting the text together. If we are going to memorize, then we need to memorize the stories. In my opinion, the church and individuals need to recover the whole story of Scripture. We will never reside in the biblical narrative and make it our own if we keep pulling single verses from their context and use them as proof texts to argue our own theological agenda.
In addition to versitis we have also developed topicalitis (a contagious and deadly Bible teaching disorder), and systematitis (the art of propositional gathering). We have developed a penchant for minutia. It is my opinion that fragmented teaching produces fragmented believers who are anemic, listless, and weak with no sense of vocation as a believer in God and an experiencer of God.
These three epidemics are caused by foundationalism, which among Evangelicals has caused too "low" a view of Scripture. Why? Evangelicals have come to believe in the authority of the book that we have made Scripture to be. We believe that God somehow has given us the wrong sort of book and it is our job to turn it into the right sort of book by engaging in the fissiparous use of Scripture. Below, we will look at Grenz and Franke and their discussion about the rise of foundationalism. Before we do, let’s note a brief overview of Story." Winn Griffin
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