But it needs to be bathed in suicidal unconditional surrender, in desperate, groaning prayer, in broken-hearted fasting and in crazy chance-taking to do signs and wonders.
Bible stories are just squiggles of carbon on dried out tree pulp. Just inanimate records of once live, embodied revelation. The original embodied and lived event is the real revelation. Bible stories whether oral or written are just abstract representations, fossils. What God wants His Word in the Church to do is to bring these fossils back to life in the here and now. Like Jurassic Park. We need some freaking monsters on our side! The stories are just computer code. We are the massive, slumbering Transformers that run on that code!
The Biblical events need to be re:incarnated, revealed in our flesh afresh, anew in current contextualized embodied, acted revelation. The stories of Jesus and apostles performing signs and wonders like casting out demons and healing the sick and prophesying what they could not possibly know naturally, are not picturesque parables to teach some sublime spiritual truths: they are models and patterns for how we are supposed to replicate their ministry NOW, once again being filled with His empowering Presence to heal, to point out our need for God and reconcile the masses to God, only as His awesome Presence moves, only by the agency of His unique incarnation, Jesus.
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