There have always been prophetic voices; those who speak to their generation, their culture, their contemporaries in this ever changing world. As I read The Miracle Free Gospel, I couldn’t help being reminded of Clarence Jordan, founder of Koinonia Community, and his “Cotton Patch Gospels”. The Gospel reality is intact, yet it is a message spoken to and about a people who would understand what he was saying because it relate(s/d) to those who Clarence Jordan served, and those who have a heart for universal application of the message of truth. In this generation and time, I see this book as being yet another prophetic voice, speaking on more than one level to contemporaries of all ages who are willing to break out of the narrow, rigid box of man made tradition and (as The Rule of St. Benedict instructs) “listen with the ear of the heart.” I am in the company of many who are saying that we are living in a moment of “A New Reformation”; “A New Awakening”. I feel confident that in this writer there lives the heart of one who continues to reach out for real truth and that seeking continues to be met with a prophetic gifting that is expressed in multiple ways. This book is one of those ways!! By the way, there is some great bonus material at the end of the book that includes excerpts from other books.
Just a brief comment here on the excerpt included, from the book “Returning Home”. (The writer's) encounter with the LDS missionaries is a stunning image of walls that are dissolving so that dialogue; honest from the heart dialogue, can take place in this world that has all too often identified it’s enemies by dogma and fashion.
- Will Byrd. San Francisco, California
- Will Byrd. San Francisco, California