“Have you ever tried to discuss the Bible with a literalist? For literalists there is no story, no poetry, no imagination, only doctrinal truths to be believed, that is, to be asserted intellectually as true.”
― A Pilgrim People: Learning Through the Church Year
― A Pilgrim People: Learning Through the Church Year
“To be a Christian means gradually, Sunday after Sunday, to be subsumed into another story, a different account of where we have come from and where we are going, a story that is called “gospel.” You are properly called a “Christian” when it’s obvious that the story told in Scripture is your story, above all other stories that the world tries to impose on you, and that the God who is rendered in Scripture is the God who has got you.”
― United Methodist Beliefs: A Brief Introduction
― United Methodist Beliefs: A Brief Introduction
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