Having finished Michael Card's A Better Freedom yesterday I was switched to a book by former president Jimmy Carter, Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith. The book is divided into 52 different Sunday School lessons he has taught over the years, nine of them are from when he was the sitting President. What caught my attention this morning came from his introduction to the book. His goal in the introduction is to help us understand why and how we should read the Bible. He also realizes how much our theological beliefs are going to affect just how we read the Bible. Towards that end, he shares his primary theological lens for Bible study and life. It is a lens he copied from a Cuban pastor named Eloy Cruz. The lens is simply this:
"We only need to have two loves in our lives: for God, and for the person who happens to be in front of us at any time."And there is the most profound summary of how we are supposed to live as Christians in a simple sentence. Two loves, God and the person who happens to be in front of us. Do we live that way? Sure we love God, but do we really interact in love with whoever is standing in front of us? How would our lives, our church, our community be different if we adopted this theological lens for living? While I disagree with much of President Carter's politics, I can find no fault whatsoever in how he has chosen to live out his Christian walk. Perhaps we should wear his theological glasses for a season.
Your brother in Christ,
Faron
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