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NASB | Nehemiah 8:8 They read from the book, from the law of God, translating to give the sense so that they understood the reading. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Nehemiah 8:8 So they read from the Book of the Law of God, translating and explaining it so that the people understood the reading. |
Subject: Postmodern Evangelicalism |
Bible Note: Here is a quote that I thought would be of some discussion value to the Forum: "The best antidote for postmodernism in the church -- for postconservative evangelicalism -- is expository preaching. Expository preaching has seemed radical almost everywhere it has ever been introduced. Ezra the priest was an expository preacher. He read the law of God in Jerusalem after the children of Israel returned from exile in Babylon. As he read the law, he explained it so that people could understand it, and they wept with sorrow for their sins. Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531) was an expository preacher, too. When the great Swiss Reformer started preaching at the Gross Munster in Zurich, he created quite a stir. One man was so electrified that he said he felt as if he had been seized by the hair and lifted from his pew. What was so electrifying? Zwingli had started at the beginning of Matthew's Gospel and preached through it a chapter at a time, verse by verse. "In a postmodern culture, expository preaching is becoming radical once again. When we open up our Bibles to hear the preaching of God's Word, we are asserting that there is a God who has the right to tell us what we need to hear. We are asserting that there is a single, authoritative standard for truth. We are asserting that the Bible is a coherent book that can profitably be read and studied in the order it had been given. We are asserting that God has an orderly mind and that it is worth our time to follow his ideas through from beginning to end. Over against all that is postmodern, we are asserting that there is such a thing as Truth, and that the Bible is where it can be found." --Philip Graham Ryken, "The Postmodern World in the Church" from his collection of essays entitled _My Father's World: Meditations on Christianity and Culture_. Oh, the wonder and power in God's infallible word! --Joe! |
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