"Knowing the Bible and being smart about the Bible and knowing all theories and fads and hermeneutical procedures and being able to womp on people with what they know is not what the Bible is all about.
"...The purpose of the Bible is not mastery but being mastered..."
"...as Bob Mulholland has said in his Shaped by the Word, a distinction to be drawn between informational readings of the Bible and formational readings of the Bible. Both are needed, but the former is easier to quantify and measure..."
"Now, to turn the gears, there is a place for emergent folk -- whoever is willing to do this -- to take up the task of articulating a "theory of the Bible" and how it functions."
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