Great Sporting Lies and Humility
" We are being asked to believe that, less than a week after the great upheaval, players who regarded Mourhino as their mentor have thrown their lot in with someone who they ahve reason to suspect may have hastened their beloved manager's exit. T's like saying Larry, Adam and The Edge would barely look up from their royalty checks if Bono were dumped in favour of James Blunt..."
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I've been doing a fair bit of training over the last couple of weeks - for new staff of our ever growing plot to change the world through students. I've been ranting a lot about the Bible as I have done here too. Jaybercrow and Zoomtard also have a lot of good stuff to say on the subject. One of the things i keep coming back to and trying to live as well as hammer into people [constantly emphasise is maybe a better phrase in this context as has been pointed out!], is a sense of humility. A wise lecturer commented a couple of days ago that their is a significant difference between arguing about the 'authority of the bible' and our 'interpretation of the bible'. Often we confuse the two. If someone doesn't agree with your interpretation, its easy to claim they don't respect the authority of the bible. and again its a classic example of trying to make ourselves feel better by making someone else feel small and claiming superiority. Which is not humility. Which is not the way of Jesus. Humility is not about winning and losing. Humility respects that other people's opinions are not snatched out of the air. Humility realises that we don't know it all, that other people have much to contribute to helping us understand God, the world, each other. In fact I think that's part of what is behind Paul's teaching on the church as a body. God does not make us self sufficient. We do not have all we need by ourselves. We need others for their gifts, skills, wisdom and experience. I think this is also what Paul is getting at in Ephesians 3 - " that you may have power, together with all the Lord's people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge".
Time to stop and begin living humbly - realising others have much to teach us, that we need others. As someone working with students I see it all the time - sometimes at 19 or 20 people think they know it all and don't need anyone else. It's something I, as someone who always knows the right way to do things - my way, has had to learn the hard way and come to appreciate much more over the years. We need other people. a large part of humility is realising that.
the soapbox - coming after your money
4 comments:
I've been exploring how the monks of the middle ages read the Bible (as you do). They put a lot of emphasis on heart motivation and intention, rather than just technique or methodology. They were critical of any approach which reduces Scripture to an object of detached analysis.
They reckoned if we don't read with humility and love, we'll never understand the Bible or gain wisdom from it. So we could read with the best exegetical skills in the world, but if our intention is to boost our own reputation as "the wise" and to criticize others who don't read the Bible well, then we'll always and forever miss the point and come away empty handed.
is humility something you drive in with a hammer?
wendy - well picked up! maybe i should have said 'constantly emphasising'
jm - yeah i think that's maybe one of the problems that often we are more about our technique than listening to God and allowing him to shape us..
Not to diminish the real subject matter here, but:
"coming after your money..."
Heheheheh...
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