Monday, February 07, 2011

Piper: centrality of the Word

God can and does show himself in other ways, especially through the works of believers (MT.5:16; 1PT2:12; 1COR.12:7).  But none of them reveals God with the clarity and fullness of the Bible.  All of them orbit around the sun of God's written Word.  And if the central gravitational power of the sun is denied, all the planets fly into confusion.
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We need the Word of God not only to see God in the Word, but to see him rightly everywhere else.

John Piper, When I Don't Desire God, p.96

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