Comments on: The “Buried and Risen” Bible http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/the-buried-bible Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:02:24 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: John Frye http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/the-buried-bible/comment-page-1#comment-2735 John Frye Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:28:29 +0000 http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/?p=323#comment-2735 Ken, Thanks, brother, for the affirming review of *Out of Print.* I am glad you found the little book "compelling." If you can promote it to your friends out there and get a number of people who want one, they can get it from the website www.outofprintnovel.com OR you can contact me and I can mail a quantity to you at a little better price. John Ken,
Thanks, brother, for the affirming review of *Out of Print.* I am glad you found the little book “compelling.”

If you can promote it to your friends out there and get a number of people who want one, they can get it from the website
http://www.outofprintnovel.com OR you can contact me and I can mail a quantity to you at a little better price.
John

]]> By: Ken K http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/the-buried-bible/comment-page-1#comment-2733 Ken K Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:40:19 +0000 http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com/?p=323#comment-2733 John... just finished your compelling "novella" - Out of Print. If Left Behind is a best selling series about the sudden disappearance of Christians around the globe, then Out of Print ought to hit the same sales figures... this time, about a written Bible that mysteriously vanishes. A curious premise, requiring a temporary suspension of logic... but hey, we're post-modern for cryin' out loud! What emerges are challenging vignettes that help us see things with brand new perspective. It's more than the absence of the most cherished book ever written. It's the power of the message when it is given life and breath in the human utterance. It is person to person sharing the powerful words that transform. It is recovering the value of the sacred text whose worth is diminished by the sheer pervasiveness and availability of the Book on the shelf, in multiple versions and buried in footnotes and explanatory commentary and cut up into bits by cross-references and verse numbers. Timeless phrases - "my grace is sufficient for you..." - when spoken with authentic eye-contact and passion; that's where the power is. So denominationalism fades. Theological debate quells. Couples find common purpose and hope. Churches recover a sense of mission. Ethnic barriers disappear. God speaks in community. Yours is a story well told; with a powerful message that needs to be heard. This Good Friday story, you and Julie there in the Orthodox church, moved by the power of the symbols.... sums it up. THANKS, John. John… just finished your compelling “novella” – Out of Print. If Left Behind is a best selling series about the sudden disappearance of Christians around the globe, then Out of Print ought to hit the same sales figures… this time, about a written Bible that mysteriously vanishes. A curious premise, requiring a temporary suspension of logic… but hey, we’re post-modern for cryin’ out loud! What emerges are challenging vignettes that help us see things with brand new perspective. It’s more than the absence of the most cherished book ever written. It’s the power of the message when it is given life and breath in the human utterance. It is person to person sharing the powerful words that transform. It is recovering the value of the sacred text whose worth is diminished by the sheer pervasiveness and availability of the Book on the shelf, in multiple versions and buried in footnotes and explanatory commentary and cut up into bits by cross-references and verse numbers. Timeless phrases – “my grace is sufficient for you…” – when spoken with authentic eye-contact and passion; that’s where the power is. So denominationalism fades. Theological debate quells. Couples find common purpose and hope. Churches recover a sense of mission. Ethnic barriers disappear. God speaks in community. Yours is a story well told; with a powerful message that needs to be heard. This Good Friday story, you and Julie there in the Orthodox church, moved by the power of the symbols…. sums it up. THANKS, John.

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