"Membership in the family of God is neither inconsequential or something to be casually ignored. The church is God's agenda for the world. Jesus said, "I will build my church, and all the powers of hell will not conquer it." The church is indestructable and will exist for eternity. It will outlive this universe, and so will your role in it."
- Rick Warren
Saturday, August 21, 2010
We posted three videos on a row. What are we, NBC?
As a break in the programming, I'll throw out some quotations from Karl Barth's Evangelical Theology:
The Word of God is the Word that God spoke, speaks, and will speak in the midst of all men. . . . It is the Word of God's work upon men, for men, and with men. His work is not mute; rather, it speaks with a loud voice. (Pg. 18)
That man who refuses to listen and to obey the Word acts not as a free man but as a slave, for there is no freedom except through God's Word. We are speaking of the God of the Gospel, his work and action, and of the Gospel in which his work and action are at the same time his speech. (Pg. 19)
The Spirit is himself God, the same one God who is also the Father and the Son; he acts both as Creator and Reconciler, as the Lord of the covenant. As this very Lord, however, he now dwells, has dwelt, and will dwell in men. He dwells not only among them but also in them by the enlightening power of his action. It is that flowing air and moving atmosphere in which men may live, think, and speak wholly and entirely freed from presuppositions -- for they are men who know the spirit and are known by him, men called by him and obedient to him, his children begotten by his Word. (Pg. 54)
The object of theological work is not some thing but some one. . . . This object is not an "It" but a "He." And He, this One, exists not as an idle and mute being for Himself, but precisely in His work which is also His word. (Pg. 163)
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2. Nightturkey
- 08/30/2010 8:22 am CDT
In my Sunday School class, I've used what I think is a pretty good working definition of a "word" as "the ultimate expression of a thought". This has helped me understand Jesus' identification as the Word of God - Jesus is the ultimate expression of God's thoughts toward us. Perhaps this comment isn't as pertinent to the topic as it could have been?
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I remember reading Barth's book on Mozart many years ago -- fascinating to read -- which posed what for me was an interesting idea: that the talent of Mozart was testimony to the existence of God, as nothing else could explain it. A sort of musical version of natural revelation.