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If you’re a young pastor in the United States, you’ve grown up with the culture wars.  You may be sick to death of them, but you may also find them hard to shake.  In the middle of the noise, let me offer this counsel: don’t let the loudest voices intimidate you.  Do the work of an evangelist.  Keep your heart open to the heart of God for those who are the outside of faith looking in.  Like Billy Graham, in fact, who in his later years has had some pretty surprising things to say.
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Well I’ve gone and made a few of you nervous, which means we’ve got a good conversation going about Jesus and Paul and understanding this book that is so important to us or we wouldn’t bother.  In some of the comments to my previous post I detected a certain unease about the idea that there might be any difference in the relative weight or significance of various biblical writers or books in the Bible.  As if any suggestion of such a difference entailed a rejection of parts of the received text of Scripture.
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Sola Jesus rather than sola scriptura is the scriptural sola.  By asserting Sola Jesus one is honoring, not denigrating Scripture.  What is the purpose of Scripture according to Scripture?  Careful.  The statement of a thing’s purpose sets the trajectory for our understanding of the thing and must be carefully stated.  Is the purpose of Scripture simply to lead and guide us, as a text might lead and guide us?  To exercise authority over us?  We read, agree, and do, as though we were reading an instruction manual for life?  Or is the purpose of Scripture to reveal Jesus who leads and guides us?
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