How do you read the Bible? Do you read it and look for people to “be like”? Be like…David: watch your neighbor’s wife take a bath, have an affair with her and have her husband killed. Hmmm, maybe not. Do you read it and look for “principles” to live by? Or do you read it [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Scripture’
August 22, 2008
Experiencing Theology: Reflections on the Holy Spirit (by Tom Fuerst)
A few months ago I wrote a post charging myself with being Too Skeptical for the Holy Spirit. I lamented, really, the fact that my Pneumatological Hermeneutic of Suspicion is always in over-drive. A few weeks later, I wrote a post delineating those Christian beliefs I considered Dogma, Doctrine, Opinion or Heresy. My friend Bryne [...]
August 22, 2008
Father, Son and Holy…Scriptures?
Growing up in in the denominational tradition I came from, there was not a great deal of teaching on the person and work of the Holy Spirit, which is probably why I began to visit charismatic churches more and more after God first saved me. In college I remember attending a Passion conference with a [...]