RT @nick_routledge: @austeni What does the prophet mean by what they say? Jesus repeatedly asserts his disciples do not hear him. The mystery of the gospel, then, is radical: a circuit-breaker. As such, asked for the greatest commandment, Jesus says what? "Hear, O Israel! ..." First, hear the Kingdom aright.
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Copy of tweets here: On restoring the correspondence between God and word? In one of his last letters from prison, before the the Nazis murdered him, Bonhoeffer wrote, “The day will come when men will once more be called so to utter the word of God that the world will be changed and renewed by it...” “... It will be a new language, perhaps quite non-religious, but liberating and redeeming as was Jesus’ language; it will shock people and yet overcome them by its power.” 2 Thessalonians 2:8. James Hillman: "Words, like angels, are powers."
@HootenWilson The cross is _doing_the_truth_, isn't it? Medium itself as message. Until He is passed on personally through faithfulness, forgiveness and bonds of union, is He passed on at all? St. Francis: "Preach the Gospel unceasingly, and only where absolutely necessary, use words."
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Copy of tweet here: 1/7 The hermaneutic, deeply vexing, though, isn't it? How on earth do we sensibly communicate an experience of the staggering meaningfulness and plenitude of a Depth Realm conceived and experienced only through an obedience to love turning the world upside down? (Acts 17:6)