Sunday, November 25, 2018

Call To Discover

A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes, but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and, having found out what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.

-- Ernest Hemingway

Referring to Hemingway...

So whether he was writing about an old fisherman on small boat in the ocean or a Spanish bullfighter, he communicated the realities he’d found. I was struck by how his comment also applies to pastors, whose call is to discover God's truth and the realities of the gospel and God’s kingdom, and to present them in ways that allow listeners and observers to experience that truth .

-- Marshall Shelley