Knowledge doesn’t terminate on the knower. We don’t learn in order to
conceal, just like a lamp isn’t lit to be put under a basket (Matthew 5:15).
We learn in order to express — to lead others in seeing and savoring
what we have seen and savored. And that means we don’t merely say it,
but that we say it effectively.
To encourage this kind of communication, John Piper recently
explained four characteristics of helpful speaking and writing to new
graduates of Bethlehem College and Seminary. He counsels communicators to say what they’ve seen with truth, with logic, with pictures, and with love.
It’s perhaps that first point, though, that might surprise most of
us. It could seem redundant to say that communicators of truth should
communicate with truth. But as Piper explains it, he doesn’t mainly have
in mind that we be the opposite of liars, but that we be the opposite of hypocrites. He then continues by giving a profile of hypocrisy: Continue at Jonathan Parnell
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