BONUS DAY
Today is a 'bonus day' here on the Renew-All blog, in that, when making the schedule, I didn't pay attention to the fact that there are thirty-one days in July.
So let's take a breather and reflect on what we've read so far. Hopefully you've found some transformative and surprising stories and ideas in the passages we've covered so far. I'll leave you with some words from famous Biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann:
The Bible, especially through the lens of its most vigorous interpreters, can be dangerous, subversive, and scandalous. Its scandalous quality is, of course, theological. The God mediated to us in Scripture does not fit our preferred notions but is always more odd and surprising than we can expect or anticipate. That theological scandal, however, will not be contained in formal theological categories. It spins off into other dimensions of scandal. Just now in the church, the oddness and danger of the biblical God are evidenced around socioeconomic, political questions concerning the cry of the poor, the urge of justice, and the power and possibility of real social transformation.
Walter Brueggemann, The Word Militant: Preaching a Decentering Word (2007, Reprint, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2010), 35.
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