Quotable

Edward Fudge posted this quote in his daily GracEmail. I share it just so you can chew on it a while.

"The challenge before us is to avoid trivializing the gospel by reducing it to that which can be mastered by some technique, explained by some formula, captured in some proposition, or embodied in some ideological agenda. The gospel does not tell us how to vote; which political or economic theory to espouse; or what desires, hopes, and views we should have. The Christian faith is surprisingly un-dictatorial, and when it becomes dictatorial, it becomes disappointingly un-Christian." -- John B. Rogers,Jr., "Between Text and Sermon," Interpretation (July 2003), 293.