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  1. Brian Zahnd _ Water To Wine: Some of My

    Feeling intimidated by the Scientific Revolution, fundamentalism takes a "scientific" approach to the Bible-which is perhaps the worst of all ways to approach Scripture. The Bible is not interested in giving {or even competing with} scientific explanations. The Bible is working on a different project than scientific inquiry.
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  2. Brian Zahnd _ Water To Wine: Some of My

    Christian faith is more about connecting our lives with Christ than it is about gaining spiritual information.
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  3. Brian Zahnd _ Water To Wine: Some of My

    Jesus overturned money-changing tables in the temple, but set up banqueting tables in his Father's house.
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  4. Brian Zahnd _ Water To Wine: Some of My

    Christianity is a confession, not an explanation. We will attempt to explain what we legitimately can, but we will always confess more than we can explain.
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  5. Brian Zahnd _ Water To Wine: Some of My

    this-when we feel hurt, threatened, or angered by a person, people-group, opinion, or situation, we instinctively look through the lens of self-defense. It's like looking at something through the sights of a gun-it's a narrow perspective framed in fear and held in hostility. Such a perspective is certainly not the full or true perspective. But if we are dualistic, non-contemplative people, we will think of our highly limited perspective as total truth. It's all we can see. This is the black-and-white world where everything is framed as win-or-lose, us-versus-them.
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  6. Brian Zahnd _ Water To Wine: Some of My

    It's not the task of the church to change the world by legislative force. It's the task of the church to be the world changed by Christ. This is revolutionary in a way that conventional politics never can be.
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  7. Brian Zahnd _ Water To Wine: Some of My

    Fundamentalism is to Christianity what paint-by-numbers is to art.
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