Real Live Preacher

Even on vacation, I've found time to keep up with my favorite bloggers. I enjoyed this essay from Real Live Preacher. Of course I felt the sting of familiarity in some of the descriptions.

But what truly amazes me is what happens when two Christians find themselves in a dispute over some doctrinal issue or passage of scripture. Suddenly they forget how messy the New Testament is, how contradictory and convoluted parts of it can be. They forget that their own theology is a product of very selective reading.

Forgetting these things, they run back to their studies in search of verses of scripture that support their position. They pull out books and commentaries; they scan denominational pamphlets or find help online in locating these verses...