today we can be found approaching the text in an attack mode: “unlock” the passage; barrage the Bible with a variety of hermeneutical and exegetical strategies. We analyze texts, dissect passages, take apart words, construe points, principle-ize concepts. We make the stories of Jesus add up like 1 + 1 = 2. Or at least a + b = ab. And we take those locked and loaded, solution-packed answers, download them into a lecture, count “one, two, three” for good measure, and randomly shoot our points at unsuspecting parishioners, hoping for some bull’s-eye hits. The problem is, for all our attempted
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