Freedom to Fail

The odd thing about grades is that they have never really been at the forefront of my mind.  I mean I've always tried to do well and acquire those good grades, but I've never had to sacrifice my own personal educational ambitions to get them.  I most often found myself learning what I've wanted to learn and working towards what I've wanted to work towards within the confines of class and what was being taught and always came away with high marks.  Last semester, however, was a different story...

from culture to the kingdom

I mentioned earlier my view that the Bible as counter cultural; kt is concerned with the kingdom of God as opposed to our human kingdoms and cultures, whatever those may be.  The Bible can be, and should be, an incredibly challenging document and we should be humble enough to open ourselves to its counter to our personal cultural affinities.
Yet as counter cultural as the Bible is, it is still incredibly cultured.  It is a document that comes from humans and from human culture, not out of the sky and not merely through human penmanship  Because of the "humanness" of Scripture its counter culturalness must often be found as it is not always often seen.