

Their answers did not encompass all the Bible said, but they were true. His experiences with the black church in Harlem and Hitler’s regime in Germany drove him to ask certain questions about how Christians and the church should relate to the government.

His context of an often legalistic and corrupt church made him ask certain questions of the Bible about salvation. How could we know what the Bible really said when we are inevitably limited? But what if this were a blessing? What if this drawback allowed God to speak with truth and power to our particular situations?Ĭonsider Martin Luther. Our circumstances make us ask certain questions we wouldn’t ask otherwise. We all read the Bible from our own viewpoint, from within our own culture and background.
