👇 This book was a great blessing to read. It took me two readings to get it—not for any lack of Webster’s ability to communicate through this medium, but because of my own inability to listen attentively. He taught me to slow down, pray, concentrate and contemplate.
Why does theology require prayer?
“There is no technology of the Spirit, no moral or intellectual or even spiritual performance which will automatically make us into theologians. What there is—much to our disappointment, usually—is prayer. At the heart of theological existence is calling upon God.
Prayer is not to be thought of functionally or instrumentally. It is not a means to an end; it is not some kind of contemplative clearing of the mind or spirit, a positioning of oneself more accurately before the intellectual task.
Even less is prayer part of a benign ambience of religiosity which bathes our scholarly efforts with its light (a daft idea if ever I heard one).
Prayer is speech addressed to God in which we ask for help with an urgency and intensity which only make sense if we really are in dire straits.
Prayer is that basic human action which corresponds to our incapacity, to our unsuitability for what is required of us, and therefore to the utter necessity of the merciful intervention of God. To pray is to be human in the theater of grace.”
- John Webster
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1) The natural Son 2) secured the adoption of sons who 3) are conformed to the Son
Three lectures for the first half of SCARBC Pastors Conference this year. Dr. Sparks and Pastors Meadows and Walter will pick up from here by expositing sanctification
This book has its ups and downs. Chapter 6 on text transmission and reliability was a liability IMO. I really enjoyed chapters 3 and 4. Especially his discussion regarding the names and I “designed coincidences” in the Gospels. Those were worth the price of admission.
Future fun Roadster demos will include flying over the Snake River or maybe Grand Canyon and landing on its wheels and exceeding half the speed of sound