{"id":2427,"date":"2021-05-12T09:15:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T08:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=2427"},"modified":"2021-05-12T09:23:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T08:23:41","slug":"a-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/05\/12\/a-question\/","title":{"rendered":"A question"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Nice rainbow yesterday evening. But this kind of showery, thundery weather can have tragic consequences. Unusually for me, the colours remain untweaked<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A question that comes up in my head from reading Sunday’s Lectionary<\/a> – where do you get your guidance from, and how do you test it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some ideas from the readings – the word of the Lord, a random process (casting lots), the ‘testimony of God’ reflected in Jesus, the Holy Spirit, the word of God… Well, they are not mutually exclusive – and other ideas suggest themselves – the Bible, and reason itself – it’s got to make sense. All this is not straightforward, though, and there need to be checks, tests – we interpret God’s dream not alone, but in community. It’s hard, especially when you’re talking with people who are coming from a very different place – maybe that is part of the pain of living in an imperfect world. Another good question to ask – are we hearing what we’re hearing only because it’s what we want to hear – or is the message moving us on? Nevertheless don’t let this morass of semi-knowing slow us down from following Christ eagerly once we do get the idea of where we’re going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also I’m confused by this voter ID thing – doers it mean we shall (in effect) have to pay to vote? – In which it seems to be sending us backwards to a pre-democratic time. It’s a crap solution to a small-scale problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A question that comes up in my head from reading Sunday’s Lectionary – where do you get your guidance from, and how do you test it? Some ideas from the readings – the word of the Lord, a random process (casting lots), the ‘testimony of God’ reflected in Jesus, the Holy Spirit, the word of … <\/p>\n

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