a minister's musings in pics and text
Love must always take concrete form. God did not withhold himself, but in the Son he was heard, seen, and touched. Fellow humans likewise must exhibit a concrete reality so as to be heard, seen, and touched.
Life Together: The Heart of Love & Fellowship in 1 John by Thomas Olbricht (Covenant Publishing, 2006); p.98
Truth.
The OT … is more than the factual base out of which the NT is to be understood. The earliest Christians understood the OT as the very basis for achieving a proper relationship with God. …
Though the institutions of the OT have passed away, the theology of the OT remains. In fact, on it is built the theology of the NT. …
The church today suffers malnutrition if a part of its diet is not the theology of the OT.
Thomas Olbricht in The World and Literature of the Old Testament edited by John T. Willis (Sweet Publishing, 1979); pp.344-345
