Three Mile an Hour God

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That’s what I’m going to argue here. And I’m going to argue that this discipline is the oldest and simplest practice around. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-02-28 11:00:48 Boxid IA40068011 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Col_number COL-658 Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

The Revd Dr John Swinton is a former nurse, a minister in the Church of Scotland, and Professor of Practical Theology and Pastoral Care at the University of Aberdeen. His books include Dementia: Living in the memories of God, which won the 2016 Michael Ramsey Prize, and Becoming Friends of Time ( Reading Groups, 8 September 2017), both published by SCM Press. Which brings me to the book under review. Mark Buchanan is a Canadian pastor and the author of many books. His latest, God Walk: Moving at the Speed of Your Soul, is unapologetically inspirational in its intent. He hopes to motivate readers who walk only when it’s obligatory (they are legion) to walk more, yes, but his goals extend well beyond that. He wants all of us to think about walking and practice walking with a new mindfulness, informed by God’s self-revelation in Scripture. To this end, Buchanan draws on a rich variety of biblical texts; the motif of walking, he argues, runs through the Bible in a way that most of us have never noticed. The next thing he told me is how he was worried about his final exams in college. I told him how I once had to take my exams for my GED and asked God to help me take the test and that help came in the sense of calmness.The next thing I said to this young man was, You go to church, Have you asked God for any help in your life? He looked at me as if he new what to do next. By this time he was pulling off the side of the road right in front of the First Baptist Church which sits on the side of the highway.As I got out of his car he thanked me for my help.there was now a calm about him as well. BESIDES reflecting on scripture, disability theologians take broader theological ideas and place them alongside the experience of human disability. Take, for example, the nature of God’s love. And for us—the fact that our new-found friendship has its foundation in a ‘three mile an hour’ world makes this relationship, no matter if it feels late in the game, all the more meaningful.In this beautiful, inspiring book, Mark shows us how the simple rhythm of walking can take us farther on the path of wholeness, joy, and God than we imagined possible. Poetic, poignant, and immensely practical, this book will change your life… one step at a time. But, as we discovered in chapter four of our study, the Lord Jesus Christ is the New Temple. Everything in the Jewish system is fulfilled in Jesus Christ. He is the Temple. He fulfills the priesthood. He is the fulfillment of the Law. He is the Final Sacrifice. Jesus fulfills everything that was held sacred by the Old Covenant: the Law, the Priesthood, the sacrificial system, the Temple – all of it was being fulfilled in Jesus. Though this woman was shut out and couldn’t go to the Temple, in Jesus Christ the Temple was coming to her!!

But I’m thinking of an old book by Japanese theologian Kosuke Koyama: “ Three Mile an Hour God.” Three miles an hour is approximately the speed of walking. Koyama says that this is God’s speed.Most of us walk unthinkingly, without gratitude, maybe even resentfully. Our walking is accidental, incidental, inevitable, maybe grudging. It’s what we do between sitting.