The Theologian's Table

Dear Tim, At the rate you are going now you will graduate with your bachelors in Bible and Theology by December with honors. You will additionally be starting graduate school with the purpose of becoming a professor and a theologian of some sort. But in your quest for knowledge there are some things you'll need to remember: While you are investigating the relevance of terms like theotokos , people will be struggling to pay their electricity bill. While you are discussing the atonement theories of the Church fathers, the political cycle of the world will increasingly divide humanity. And while you are debating with others if James' epistle is a polemic against Paul's views of justification, parents will be losing their children to heroin overdoses. Tim, keep your feet on the ground and your heart rooted in the Gospel.

A Devotion for 2/21/2016.                      What is a person’s worth? Since the dawn of civilization humans have been asking this question and have developed many attempts to answer it. We have not become good at answering the question. We live in a pluralistic world where we have created many faiths in which the person must climb their way upwards to find some kind of enlightenment. Even the Christian Church has had a hand adding to the difficulty of the question by often downplaying the worth of a person.             One way we try to answer to this complex, human question, is through the practice of trying to find acceptance among others. As humans we think, “Well if I just work hard enough and make enough money then I’ll prove my worth to everyone,” or, “If my body looks this certain way then people will finally start noticing me,” and “If I say the right things, w...