Personal v. Propositional
Michael,
One thing that struck me about your post is that point to God's words in Scripture to demonstrate God's personal
nature in response to those that want the spiritual experience or
feeling without the personal confrontation of a personal God.
Interestingly, there are other circles of Christians who move in just
the opposite direction: they want to de-emphasize the propositions of
Scripture for the sake emphasizing God's personal nature. What you
couple they want to de-couple.
Why would you say that the words and propositions of Scripture are so tremendously personal? (By this I don't mean to suggest that Scripture consists only of propositions.) I'm not asking for a professorial (e.g. epistemological etc) answer here, but a pastoral one. In other words, how do you encourage members of your church to approach all of Scripture as God's personal word to them individually and corporately?
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