Re: Brennan Manning Quote
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 3:37 am
I think the quote is nice, if not a little towards that famed 'experience' we all chase after when we drop our guard. Plus, I've come to find the gospel of grace through research. Of course I believe God had a helping hand. But I have to directly contradict this, "Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace." I turned everything off, picked up the Book, and read, read, read. I also read plenty of "scholarship" and found a great deal of help. I don't think the quote is sidelining scholarship, but it is certainly in danger of downplaying it.Canuckster1127 wrote:"The Word we study has to be the Word we pray. My personal experience of the relentless tenderness of God came not from exegetes, theologians, and spiritual writers, but from sitting still in the presence of the living Word and beseeching Him to help me understand with my head and heart His written Word. Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders to replace the authority of *knowing* Jesus Christ personally and directly. When the religious views of others interpose between us and the primary experience of Jesus as the Christ, we become unconvicted and unpersuasive travel agents handing out brochures to places we have never visited."
Dan