How to Get Back on Track
Taken from Scripture and the Authority of God
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How to Get Back on Track
The Need for an Integrated View of Scripture’s Authority
We urgently need an integrated view of the dense and complex phrase ‘the authority of scripture’. Such an integrated view needs to highlight the role of the Spirit as the powerful, transformative agent. It needs to keep as its central focus the goal of God’s kingdom, inaugurated by Jesus on earth as in heaven and one day to be completed under that same rubric. It must envisage the church as characterized, at the very heart of its life, by prayerful listening to, strenuous wrestling with, humble obedience before, and powerful proclamation of scripture, particularly in the ministries of its authorized leaders. The following sections offer proposals on this theme...