I have been spending a fair amount of time of late chewing over the issues of scripture, hermeneutics and authority. Because I don’t want to get anything wrong I wont say much until I have it sorted :)

I’ll update this when I have had a chance to cohere some of my thoughts…

Update:

So the process of my thinking goes:

• The bible is the word of God
• Evangelicalism would say sola scriptura ie Scripture alone
• Further, we often state that the Bible is our authority

Human trafficking, including women forced to become prostitutes or minors forced to do child labor, is worse now than the trade in African slaves of past centuries, a top Vatican official said on Tuesday.

This is a staggering blight on the notion of “progress” as a society.

As Wilberforce stood against the prevailing practice and thought of his time (including that of many Christians), are the Christians of today going to likewise stand and say this is not right, not good and we, our churches and our governments must act?

Are our churches at least aware of these issues?

There is a lot of talk about making a difference and changing the world these days.

Here is a local opportunity to get engaged:

http://www.makepovertyhistory.com.au/

Especially over the next couple of weeks with the G20 coming to town.

Hope to see you there.