Only the Text can interrogate me...

JMI Conference 2015 Part I... on Human Pride
"Secret Thoughts of An Unlikely Convert"

JMI Conference 2015 Part II... on Human Pride

"Secret Thoughts of An Unlikely Convert"

"I once thought these things were valuable, but now I consider them worthless because of what Christ has done. Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake, I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ and become one with him....." (Philippians 3:7-9a)

As I had observed how our United Methodist Community of faith had responded to the postmodern world for last couple of decades, a concern had begun to grow, "Are we now transforming the postmodern world with the message of Jesus Christ or are we being deformed by the postmodern world and its ideology?". 

One day, I have heard about someone who truly have brought the Christian response to the postmodern world. Her name is Rosaria Butterfield, who was once standing forefront line of the postmodern ideology with pride but now transformed by the Text of the New and Old Testament, asking a question, "what if it is true?", honestly and humbly.

Rosaria is a postmodern day Paul who once lost but now was found through an unusual encounter with Jesus like Paul who did on the way to Damascus to persecute Christians. Rosaria is a highly intelligent woman who had taught English in Syracuse University as a feminist philosopher keeping a lesbian life style. However, her life was transformed as she let the divine light from the Text reflect on her whole self, every corner and every inch of it. Now God is using her as an instrument to bring a divine response to this me-centered postmodern world like Paul to the Roman world two thousand years ago. 

We need to pay attention to her voice if we are to prepare the response to the postmodern world as a body of Christ.