There can be little doubt that we are standing on the edge of certain change in America. After the first Tuesday in November, 2016, everything will change. This happens regardless of which political party wins the Whitehouse. Having acknowledged that, how then should we live in the midst of both great danger and great opportunity?
Guardrails on the highway
Driving through the mountains of Washington State can be a dangerous adventure, especially in the snow and ice. On particularly dangerous mountain roads the state has installed guardrails to try and prevent cars from going over the edge to certain death. In the same way God has some guardrails to keep us from crashing our lives. John Rusk and I discuss this in depth on our podcast, Is Your Church An Endangered Species?.
Here is one of several guardrails we talk about in our podcast:
The Authority of God's Word
We get a sense of the importance of God's Word from this quote from St. Paul in 2 Timothy "All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. " The authority of the scripture comes from its source: It is God breathed (or, inspired). Because God is both perfect and completely free from any failure or weakness, the scriptures--the very breath of God--are themselves trustworthy and the final word on matters of faith and practice.
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