Seth Godin, author and internet guru, wrote a post on our desire to summarize everything. The problem, says Godin, is that people take the summary as the actual deal. He says,
“At least once a week, someone emails me a lousy review someone did of a summaryof one of my books. Not the book, but what they thought the book was about based on a blog post summary of the book.”
It struck me that this is the problem we have in understanding the Bible. We’ve never actually read it, we’ve just brushed up on some guy’s summary of the Bible and drawn our conclusions.
Much of today’s theology is based on what some guy said a hundred years ago. Ironically, most people who adhere to their guy have not only never read the Bible to any point of familiarity, they’ve also rarely read what their guy said.
How much of your theology is based on some guy’s summary of the Bible? Have you actually read the guy’s summary? Does the whole version of the Bible make sense with that summary?
“Man does not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.” God never said we live by every word of a summary of some guy who heard a summary from another guy based on another summary from another guy who knew a guy who once read Genesis.
anti-itch meditation 
we can follow those paths of breadcrumbs or we can have our own loaf of bread.
Good word, Jeff. I linked to this one this morning. Peace.
Like the thought.