This weekend we're considering Hebrews 12:1 and the importance of nurturing both roots and branches, past and future, old and new. It seems to me that neglect of either tradition or innovation, either conservation or liberation, either the unchanging God or the God who is always on the move ... leads to sickness, and death.
We need both: the solid past and the liquid future. When we pursue one to the exclusion of the other ... life, and especially Christian life, is in danger.
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