No explanations

Lawson Stone is in Israel for "j-term" as they call it at Asbury Seminary. He was visiting the Church of All Nations and saw a sign saying, "No explanations inside the church." He muses (italics his):
"this sign powerfully expressed the attitude of the church at large as many of us experience it. So often it seems that we play one kind of biblical knowledge, historical-cultural-geographical, against another kind, namely, devotional and theological. Some contemporary trends in biblical theology almost distort the concept of reading the Bible “canonically” (an excellent thing) into reading the Bible “on the flat” with no depth dimension of historical and cultural insight (a poor thing). It’s almost like using ignorance as a method!"

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Too true!
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