Living Out Scripture

Andy Goodliff has created an excellent meme on the idea of living out scripture. He is asking bloggers to reflect on the passages of scripture that they return to again and again; those passages that are central to lived faith and then tag others to do the same.

Like Jason Goroncy (another of Andy’s inital tagees), I found it hard to narrow this down to just one passage. The cluster of Philippians 2.1-11, Matthew 11.28-30, Micah 6.6-8, Jeremiah 9.23-24, James 4.1-6 and Ecclesiates 9.10-12, frequently come to mind and leap from the page upon re-reading.

But, if there is one passage that is central to my lived faith, to the way I’m trying to be-in-the-world, it is Philippians 4.8,

Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things.

I’m looking forward to seeing what passages are suggested by,

Brodie at View From The Basement
C. Wess at Gathering In Light
Jeremy at Away With Words
Joshua at Joshua Case
Paul at One For The Road

Regardless of whether you’ve been tagged or not, feel free to join in either by commenting here or on your own blog.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, July 26th, 2007 at 1:08 pm and is filed under Daily Life, Theology and Culture. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

6 Responses to “Living Out Scripture”

  1. brodie says:
    Thursday 26th July 2007 at 7:14 pm

    Fernando – Philippians 4:8 is seared on my mind as it was a passage my Mum kept bringing us as kids back to again and again. I respond to the ‘tag’ over the next couple of days.

  2. brodie says:
    Friday 27th July 2007 at 4:54 pm

    Fernando – I’ve put my list up now.

  3. Paul says:
    Saturday 28th July 2007 at 1:02 am

    mmm i’m gonna have to think, i can only have one???

  4. Daniel Arellano says:
    Saturday 28th July 2007 at 1:25 am

    Here are few of my central verses that keep me on the journey
    http://danieliarellano.blogspot.com/

  5. Fernando Gros says:
    Friday 3rd August 2007 at 1:42 pm

    Daniel – good choices, thanks for the link.

  6. Living Out the Scripture: The Lord’s Prayer says:
    Thursday 23rd August 2007 at 2:55 am

    [...] Awhile back Ferdando Gros wrote a short post naming some of his favorite passages of Scripture, it’s based on a meme Andy Goodliff started back in July. Those tagged are asked to: “Post that verse or story of scripture which is important to you, which you find yourself re-visiting time after time.” [...]

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