Preaching from the OCH
20 May 2008 - 16 אייר 5768 by Huw
Brother James Michael Dowd, n/OHC, takes a little turn to the East in his Trinity sermon:
…I think a fact-based approach to faith is missing the point by a mile. We need a Truth-based approach to faith. And for that, we need mystery, we need wonder, we need imagination. This is not to denigrate science, or mathematics or even theological studies. Not at all. Each of those disciplines has taught us about some aspect of God’s awesome and wondrous creation, and therefore has taught us something about God, about the Trinity. But it seems to me that to be on this journey with God is to begin to get to know God. And to begin to get to know God, is to begin to fall in love with God. And when it comes to loving God, a little mystery can go a long way.
ROFL,
At the risk of sounding slightly blasphemous, I almost expected his next line to be something about perfume and flowers.