Two points from Walter Brueggemann*

* _{"An Imaginative Or" in "The Word Militant"; Fortress, 2007)}

1]  I understand preaching to be the chance to summon and nurture an alternative community with an alternative identity, vision, and vocation, preoccupied with praise and obedience toward the God we Christians know fully in Jesus of Nazareth;

I am quite convinced that there is a general bias for skimming the surface of the main issues confronting us as the opportunity for growth to maturity. We seem quite taken with comforting milk and rather reluctant for that meat by which we are edified for service by divine appointment.

I posted the paragraph below in another thread. One reader said that he could not understand what I was saying. What about you? Do you understand what the paragraph is speaking about?

Is this thread still live?

Seems to me that now is the time for careful consideration of what was experienced in the gathered General Council.

I appreciate the diverse perspectives on the various articles.

Allows for a triangulation of sorts, by which the whole may be glimpsed in the assembly of its parts.

Wonder what thoughts rise in response to the metaphor chosen as the assembly's spiritual theme: What does the tale of the prophet and the potter's house have to say for us?

What word will be revealed?