(For Andree) … AMEN!
Just read Andree Seu’s, “Amen! Preach it!”–an article to which I WISH I could link (like I used to link to her writings ALL the time, but now I can’t because World Mag is charging for online viewing now)–and I just have to SHOUT, AMEN!
Once again, Andree reminds us that we are called to, “lean hard against losing Christ in Christian traditions.”
That knowledge does not save us.
And knowing a lot about God is not the same thing as knowing God.
(Only, of course, SHE says it MUCH, MUCH better.)
“This is a paean to all the folks who praise at inappropriate times. They know no compartments between praise and lectures, between praise and chatting afterwards at the cafe. They waste scads of time at their carrels in the library stopping over every other sentence of Van Til to praise their glorious God.
And when it comes to that, I have noticed that nothing I ever do non-interactively ever sticks. At any given moment that my religious activities become mere doctrine and not communion with Jesus, I have, for that moment at least, stepped out of truly biblical Christian living into some other mode of being–judge, spectator, player at religion. Francis Schaeffer said true spirituality “is a moment-by-moment, increasing, experiential relationship to Christ” (True Spirituality).
Where have you gone brother? … Maybe one of you could shout “Amen!”
Amen, Andree!
Amen and amen.
And thank you for your continued ministry to us all.