a taster

Posted on January 20, 2008  by Geoff Matheson
Filed Under Church, Quotes

I’m back from honeymooning, and we’ll be kicking back off here soon. But to keep you interested, I thought I’d better post this tidbit from the wider blogosphere:

I recently heard someone say that the motto of Christianity nowadays is

“And now these three things remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is truth.” - From “The Corner”

Feel free to discuss as you feel necessary.

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Geoff is a 23 year old database administrator who has birthed amateurtheology.org from some crazy thoughts he had early one Monday morning. Geoff does his best to sound lots smarter than he actually is. He also runs some youth stuff at Yarra Valley Vineyard, and he is married to the very lovely Rebecca.

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4 Responses to “a taster”

  1. Paul Robotham on January 21st, 2008 12:55 am

    I suppose that the author is saying something about the Christian reaction to the postmodern worldview. Christians have been talking a lot more about truth, objective truth, in order to defend it from postmodern junkies. I am sure it is just a phase, just like in more Modernist times Christians had to talk a lot more about reason. Pilate asked “What is truth?” Christ had the answer, but Pilate didn’t want to hear it. True, Christians should be always be talking more about love and hope than truth.

  2. Paul on January 22nd, 2008 6:03 pm

    It’s probably a good segway into talking about how evangelical Christianity (read: the western institutional church) spends a lot of time focusing on ‘getting things right’. We want to understand and to communicate the truth. But is that the whole picture? Do we sometimes do so at the expense of acting with grace, or ignoring the leading of the Spirit?

    I don’t think it’s just a reaction to postmodernism. I think we just like playing to our own human strengths. Grace always costs us something. Sensitivity to the Spirit takes us out of the driver’s seat. So the more we put the emphasis on ‘knowing’, the more in control we feel… as long as we don’t apply the truth to ourselves with its full force.

  3. Matt on January 23rd, 2008 7:03 am

    And love ≠ happy funtimes always: but truth is always truth. I agree - it’s the way out of postmodernism - kind of a friendly fundamentalism.

  4. Paul M on January 28th, 2008 2:44 am

    is that true?? ;)

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