Making Sense of Church by Spencer Burke :: A Starting Point :: jordoncooper.com: "Somehow, over the centuries, knowledge has become king. We've effectively said that knowing about God will ultimately help us know God. As a result, we often focused more on the Word, then on the Word become flesh. And yet as A.W. Tozer pointed out, God cannot be contained in any object or that object will become out god. Cold it be that we've created an idol and have actually begun to worship Christian education or the Bible?"

What another great nugget of thought!

I too believe that we somehow have overemphasized the brain and neglected the whole person. I know that I personally am the kind of guy that doesn't like to get caught up in emotional things . . . and have emphasized facts over faith many times. But how do you find the balance of studying His Word to determine who Jesus is over having no factual base of our understanding of Jesus without going to something concrete? There 'has' to be a balance somewhere . . but I am not confident in myself to make that decision of where the center should be . . obviously it must be focused on Jesus Christ! But if I take someones personal interaction with Jesus . . . it quite possibly could be different than mine (gasp!) . . .but more important, different than the Bible. For example . . . the Jesus of acadamea is different than the Jesus of the mormon church and the Jesus of the new age movement (is it really new anymore?).

I refuse to divorce myself from an emphasis on the firm truth of Scripture, but I do hope to better not study the mechanics of scripture over the finding and discovering of Jesus the Christ.

So help me God.