Today’s main contribution to blogdom is at hopeful imagination
But last night’s reading included this Barthian broadside against any marginalising of preaching by the church.
"… the sermon as the exposition of Scripture, becomes fraught with meaning, when it is a preaching of the Word of God. It is simply a truism that there is nothing more important , more urgent, more helpful, more redemptive, and more salutary, there is nothing, from the viewpoint of heaven or earth, more relevant to the real situation than the speaking and the hearing of the Word of God in the originative and regulative power of its truth, in its all-eradicating and all-reconciling earnestness, in the light that it casts not only upon time and time’s confusions but also beyond, toward the brightness of eternity, revealing time and eternity through each other and in each other – the Word, the Logos, of the Living God. Let us ask ourselves – and as we do so think of Jesus Christ – whether the will of God does not drive us, and the plight of man….does not call us, toward this event?
Karl Barth, The Word of God and the Word of Man (London: H&S, 1928), 123-4.
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