I was particularly struck by the following para in this article - probably because I've been reading Douglas Campbell (Pauline Dogmatics; The Deliverance of God) over the last couple of years and he consistently labours this point. It is SO helpful and can save us (me) from so many theological and pastoral leadership problems: "As creatures afflicted by sin, to say that we have a clear idea of what is harming us, and then building outward to the cure, is precisely backwards. If sin does anything, then it certainly obscures my knowledge of myself, calling my understanding of my own issues into question, constantly asking if God really did say that.
We begin the moral journey by not beginning it unsummoned to it, but by learning the One who has pioneered it before us. For only in this, Karl Barth writes, can we say anything about the world. We begin not by naming the way out by assuming that I have a clear grasp on either my own vices (which obscure my reasoning), or assuming that I have a grasp on all the relevant particulars." Thankyou Myles Werntz.
I was particularly struck by the following para in this article - probably because I've been reading Douglas Campbell (Pauline Dogmatics; The Deliverance of God) over the last couple of years and he consistently labours this point. It is SO helpful and can save us (me) from so many theological and pastoral leadership problems: "As creatures afflicted by sin, to say that we have a clear idea of what is harming us, and then building outward to the cure, is precisely backwards. If sin does anything, then it certainly obscures my knowledge of myself, calling my understanding of my own issues into question, constantly asking if God really did say that.
We begin the moral journey by not beginning it unsummoned to it, but by learning the One who has pioneered it before us. For only in this, Karl Barth writes, can we say anything about the world. We begin not by naming the way out by assuming that I have a clear grasp on either my own vices (which obscure my reasoning), or assuming that I have a grasp on all the relevant particulars." Thankyou Myles Werntz.