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09/03/2002 Entry: "A helpful meeting"

At our Local Preachers' Meeting last night my colleague Howard Long gave a very helpful introduction to the Epistle to the Hebrews. Modern readers ( i.e. me!) don't find it a very easy book but Howard underlined the way that Hebrews emphasises the uniqueness and all-sufficiency of Jesus. This was a vital message then, but just as necessary today. I'd want to add that part of the reason we find Hebrews so difficult is because it is written to a group of Christians whose culture we feel quite removed from. The jargon of the temple was familiar to them, less so to us. I'm reminded that the task of the Church in every age is to find ways of expressing the ageless truths of the gospel in terms that can be understood. But what a task that is in a "post-modern" culture where the very notion of "truth" is challenged.