pat loughery

For completely unrelated-to-church reasons, I recently came across this snippet about snippets:

“Our Lord was careful to consider the text in relation to the context and the whole tenor and teaching of Scripture. The habit of taking a little snippet of a verse from any part of the Bible and making it the subject of discourse, exposes the preacher to the danger of an unbalanced statement of truth, which is very prejudicial. Nothing is more perilous than the partial knowledge of God’s truth, which is based on sentences torn from their rock-bed and viewed in isolation from their setting.”
– Frederick Brotherton Meyer, 1912

I love that quote. This past Sunday – uh… isn’t that just yesterday?!?? – we looked at Genesis 10-11, and the weekend before we read and discussed through Genesis 6-9. The story of the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11 sets an point on the arc of God’s story that also includes Acts 2:1-12, and Revelation 14:6, and we discussed that arc.

I love my community of faith and our willingness to dig deep, together. We’re learning what it means to understand Scripture in is literary, historical and Biblical context, so that we might do Scripture in our own context.