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A fine personal, and deeply Lutheran, testimony. The question of truth is of course more than the determination of fact over fiction. It may be true for you to speak of having seen the sun rising this morning, and it may even be true that you saw th…
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- What is the name of your congregation / organization?
- Lutheran Church of the Newtons
- What is your role in your congregation / organization?
- Pastor
- What is most challenging about engaging in Scripture?
- While not sure which of several possible interpretations to give this question, I could simply say that what is most "challenging" is attending to the particular challenge God would intend *me* to hear.
- Share a Bible passage that is especially meaningful to you.
- They are countlessly many, but Second Corinthians 3:18 comes quickly to mind. It was read at, and set the theme for, my father's funeral: "We all, with unveiled faces, may behold the glory of the Lord; we are being changed, little by little, into the image of God."
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