Grace & peace to all this new year! - One of my goals for this new year is to update this blog page and to post more regularly on this blog, as well as on my YouTube channel. Some of those blog posts will be things like short thoughts or quotes. Others, I hope, will be longer essays.
Shortly, I will be attending the meeting of the North American Academy of Liturgy, so look for some reflections on my experience there.
Until then, here is a quote that popped up as a memory on Facebook:
[In Wesley's doctrine of Scripture], ". . . Scripture is the means by which we come to know God. Knowing God, however, is not simply a matter of cognitive knowledge; it necessarily involves experiential or transformational knowledge. Wesley's focus is on a vital love relationship with God, not upon propositional knowledge about God." - "For John Wesley, for whom the Scriptures are truly the Word of God, the primary role of Scripture resides . . . in the Holy Spirit's use of it for a transforming encounter with the risen Christ, the true Word of God. Christ as the encountered Redeemer." - "The Bible is the means the Holy Spirit uses for inner regeneration and the sanctified life." (M. Robert Mulholland Jr. in Square Peg: Why Wesleyans Aren't Fundamentalists.)
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