Wednesday, September 28, 2011

He includes us in His Story...

"If we miss Jesus as the fulfillment of Old Testament messianic expectations and the foundation of New Testament kingdom proclamation, we unwittingly distance ourselves from the contemporary relevance of the Bible. He, through the Spirit, is the link between the story of Scripture and the stories of our lives.

"By the mercy of God, this story, this Word, became ours when we were united by faith to our crucified and risen Savior. It’s his story and it’s our story by virtue of being his! So, then. the Bible is a book primed for application. While Scripture passages may not be ‘timeless texts,’ they are certainly ‘timely texts’ for the people of God."

— Michael R. Emlet
CrossTalk: Where Life and Scripture Meet
(Greensboro, NC.: New Growth Press, 2009), 52

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