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1. POSITIVE IS THE NEW BLACK
2. ASK ONE QUESTION, OR EXPLORE ONE ISSUE
After starting with potentiality and possibility, I now usually ask one question, or explore one issue. Mostly the former. And I try not to sow it up in neat packages: I work towards an answer, or I take steps forward in exploration. In the end, I know that we all have further to go: more of the Scriptures to read, more of our God to love. And the one question we raise has to be both the burning question of the text, and at the same time the burning issue for the hearer.
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4 comments:
Might the question not be the one question that unlocks a too-familiar text? That forces you to read it afresh?
In other words, the question might lead you to the burning issue, the hook that sucks you in. And also a little footprint of theological method, taught implicitly...
So the answer isn't always "Jesus"???
@Anthony -- perhaps. Coekin's point is that simple is good. But you approach could work.
@gbroughto:- Jesus/God/The Bible were the big three where I grew up :)
You'd be guaranteed a correct answer 1/3 times just by guessing. I heard a joke about it a decade or so ago, that has stuck with me as I think it makes a good point:
PASTOR:
Can anyone tell me what's furry and grey, eats gum leaves and has a big, black, shiny nose?
KID:
I know the answer is "Jesus", but it sure sounds like a koala...
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