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Theory or Life ...

Wednesday, April 6, 2011. There is a difference between theory and life. Of course - everyone knows. But sometimes this seems to be unclear when we talk about biblical texts.

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Theory? …

We have the stories about Jesus, about his disciples, about the speeches he gave and the words which were passed down through history to us. It reads like nice stories. It reads like theory.

Indeed, if you talk to people in some Christian church, often they know a lot about the Christian theory. They have heard the stories many time. They have even some interpretation, they use religious slang, they tell you this or that. But is sounds a little like theory. It sounds as if we had learned something, but it has not moved to our heart.

It is good to know the bible. It is good to know a lot about the different characters which act here, which wrote the texts, about the time, the social environment. It is good to know a lot about theology, the interpretation and understanding of biblical texts over time. But that is theory. It is linked to life. But it is not life. It is not faith. It is reasoning about faith.

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Life! …

If a sentence remains a pure sentence, it is theory. But it can drop down into our heart. It can become active. It can become life. It can move us. It can touch us. It can change and transform us!

The sentences which Jesus spoke can be transforming sentences. They can be life for us. They can be change, action, movement, development. They can be salvation. When this happens, they move from theory to life. Then they are living sentences. Then, they are more than they used to be. Then, the lead us to a future!

There is so much to do, so much to listen to, so much to learn. When we become disciples of Jesus, then this process starts. We start to live. We start to be transformed. We start to move forward into what he calles “God's kingdom”. Then life starts! ... more texts

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