Life Overflowing!

Life Over­flow­ing! The first in a series about God’s abun­dant gen­eros­ity, this inspir­ing, well-written arti­cle by Bishop Larry Wohlrabe of the North­west­ern Min­nesota Synod of the Evan­gel­i­cal Lutheran Church in Amer­ica (ELCA) tes­ti­fies to God’s gift of the Word. (Upcom­ing months promise reflec­tions on such things as Chil­dren, Neigh­bors, and the Life to Come.)

Bishop Larry, who, I’m glad to be able to say, is “my” bishop, beau­ti­fully artic­u­lates how the Word of God came to us first in Jesus Christ, and then how the Word also comes to us in spo­ken and writ­ten form (preach­ing, Chris­t­ian con­ver­sa­tion; the Bible). I par­tic­u­larly appre­ci­ate Bishop Larry’s urg­ing that we rec­og­nize the Scrip­tures as a “liv­ing doc­u­ment” — not a dead let­ter to gen­er­a­tions past, nor a sta­tic law­book by which we must pre­cisely order our deal­ings with one another thou­sands of years since its first writ­ing. Indeed, as great a gift as the writ­ten Word of God is, we always view it through the Word-Made-Flesh, Jesus, who often rein­ter­preted the writ­ten Scrip­tures and the tra­di­tional way they’d been pro­claimed orally in entirely new ways!

If Chris­t­ian faith is of inter­est to you, and if you enjoy good writ­ing, take time to read Bishop Larry’s arti­cle. You’ll be inspired!