When we study the things of God, we're not studying truth in the abstract.

The reason why we want to understand theology, the reason we want to understand doctrine

is not so that we can make an A on a theology exam. We want to understand the doctrine of God so that we can understand God,

so that we can meet the living God in His Word and understand Him and deepen our personal

relationship with Him. But you can't deepen a relationship with anybody

if you don't know anything about them. And so the propositions of the scripture are not an end

in themselves. They are a means to the end, but they are a necessary means to the end. And to say

Christianity is not about propositions,

but about relationships is to establish

an extremely dangerous false dichotomy

and to do insult to the spirit of truth

whose propositions they are.

Which propositions are our meat and our drink

and define the very Christian life.

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