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I just read this post on a site that I frequent called Doable Evangelism. It's an interesting site that Randy Siever and Jim Henderson run. They give seminars on finding simple, practical ways to reach others for Christ, and I'm usually happily surprised by the suggestions they give.

Randy's recent post about re-reading Oswald Chambers My Utmost for His Highest
and coming out with a very different meaning was interesting to me. It made me wonder what kind of "lenses" I use to view the things I read. How has our church affected our reading of other spiritual material? What does God really want us to learn?

Here is the beginning of his post:

Forgive my obsession with Oswald Chambers. I have read My Utmost For His Highest fairly regularly for over 25 years. I’m now seeing things he said that I honestly don’t remember, despite the fact that I’ve likely read this exact passage at least 20 times over that span. Part of this is just where I am right now, but part of it is the filter I saw everything through in my little well defined evangelical lens. If it didn’t appear in that lens, it either didn’t exist or it was not worth considering. I read and taught scripture that way, through that smallish lens, and I apparently read Oswald Chambers that way.

Keep reading the rest, including the Oswald Chambers quote over here.


What do you think?