The Word Still Made Flesh
Dec 4th, 2007 by John
D. L. Moody said, “For the one man who reads the Bible, another 100 will read you and me.” Dwight Lyman Moody was the founder of the Moody Bible Institute.
A good friend recently told me about the Christian apologist, Ravi Zacharias’, talk at Harvard in which Zacharias said that there are five Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Christians.
The Apostle Paul wrote, “You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everybody. You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts” (2 Corinthians 3:2-3 emphasis added).
In my novella, Out of Print: A Novel, I present a compelling and imaginative story that takes these ideas seriously.
The church not only has a Bible; the Church is the Bible read by a watching world.
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John,
I think that’s what was so compelling about your book: to see what happened to the church and how it responded when the Text was removed. I loved your challenge to the Church on how it handels the Text and what it does with it, especially in relationship with each other and the world. And like you said, we are called to be the Text as a community, not simple sit with alone as individuals…
can’t wait for your next book
-jeremy
Jeremy,
Talking about the book is provoking a lot more ideas in my head about the importance of Bible and giving it the proper place in the community of faith.