Reading the Bible in a "New Way" - Part Three

(Excerpt #3 - Conclusion)

 I am saying that we mustn’t belittle scripture by bringing the world’s models of authority into it.  We must let scripture be itself, and that is a hard task.  Scripture contains many things that I don’t know, and that you don’t know; many things we are waiting to discover; passages which are lying dormant waiting for us to dig them out.  Awaken them.  We must then make sure that the church, armed in this way, is challenging the world’s view of authority. 

It seems to me that evangelical tradition has often become in bondage to a sort of lip-service scripture principle even while debating in fact how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.... Instead, I suggest that our task is to seize this privilege with both hands, and use it to the glory of God and the redemption of the world.