I am also reminded of this fact every time I walk through
certain isle of our library. One of my favorite isles on the second floor
contains shelves of Puritan literature, Spurgeon sermons, books written by Dietrich
Bonheoffer and others, . Sometimes I wish I would walk by and see more spaces in
those shelves, but I fear many people get intimidated bored by reading the old
dead guys on theology. While their writing style may be vastly different than
our own, I would strongly encourage you to search out the library, and dig into
some of the great resources therefrom.
We often talk of the fact that we are the church, and that is most certainly true, but I think we often forget to think of ourselves in terms of the invisible Church. The invisible Church, as most theologians describe it, is the body of God’s people throughout all of human history (or Pentecost, if you don’t include Israel). Regardless, I think it’s important to remember that when we are adopted into the family of God we are not by any means the only ones; there are a lot of those old boring dead guys who were bought by the blood of Christ and filled with the Holy Spirit too. And, many of them had really helpful things to say.
~Zak Fixler
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