The Inevitability of Reading Texts Creatively

Evangelical churches place such a high value on just sticking to the text. They can't admit that what you're doing in almost any evangelical church is getting an up datedversion of the bible. It really was written for you to day this morning, i think it gets dangerous. Another thing's inevitable: You will read your own context into the bible and call it the context of the bible, actly. That's all right. Instead of saying, we have ren contexts, what can we do with this text or tradition to have it make more sense to us? I mean, i think a classic example in, you know, that lasts several hundred years of interpretation, least in the