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> [“People come to church seeking a living word from the living Lord, not a commentary on life from another Garrison Keillor”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-schnasa-jacobsen/people-come-to-church-seeking-a-living-word-from-the-living-lord-not/)

[David Schnasa Jacobsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-schnasa-jacobsen/)

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## More by David Schnasa Jacobsen

> [“measures of truth fall short. God’s Way doesn’t always make sense; it is incoherent by rationalistic standards. Like Jesus, God’s truth is sometimes inappropriate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-schnasa-jacobsen/measures-of-truth-fall-short-god-s-way-doesn-t-always-make-sense-it/)

[David Schnasa Jacobsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-schnasa-jacobsen/)

> [“way.” It is an unfinished eschatological conversation; initiated by God,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-schnasa-jacobsen/way-it-is-an-unfinished-eschatological-conversation-initiated-by-god/)

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> [“reign. Until God’s reign comes in all its fullness, we can only experience it in part in fragmentary ways. With”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-schnasa-jacobsen/reign-until-god-s-reign-comes-in-all-its-fullness-we-can-only/)

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> [“due a gracious, yet ever-mysterious God that is the beginning of wisdom. The second is the acknowledgement of human limitations and an accompanying respect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-schnasa-jacobsen/due-a-gracious-yet-ever-mysterious-god-that-is-the-beginning-of/)

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> [“People come to church seeking a living word from the living Lord, not a commentary on life from another Garrison Keillor”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-schnasa-jacobsen/people-come-to-church-seeking-a-living-word-from-the-living-lord-not/)

[David Schnasa Jacobsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-schnasa-jacobsen/)

> [“The theo-rhetorical concern is chiefly one of clarity: how to speak gospel and not to say something else,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-schnasa-jacobsen/the-theo-rhetorical-concern-is-chiefly-one-of-clarity-how-to-speak/)

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> [“True repentance, though, ultimately includes belief (i.e., trust) in God’s sovereign way as we turn from our old ways to point ourselves in God’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-schnasa-jacobsen/true-repentance-though-ultimately-includes-belief-i-e-trust-in-god-s/)

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> [“From where I sit, all homiletical theological perspectives are interpretations with certain strengths and weaknesses. They have a provisional character. We cannot have full…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-schnasa-jacobsen/from-where-i-sit-all-homiletical-theological-perspectives-are/)

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> [“This also leads Bonhoeffer to assert that the efficacy of preaching occurs only because it pleases God, who in the ministry of word and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-schnasa-jacobsen/this-also-leads-bonhoeffer-to-assert-that-the-efficacy-of-preaching/)

[David Schnasa Jacobsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-schnasa-jacobsen/)

> [“The sapiential hermeneutic is a hermeneutic with a high tolerance for complexity and ambiguity. Sermons that grow out of the kind of inductive sapiential…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-schnasa-jacobsen/the-sapiential-hermeneutic-is-a-hermeneutic-with-a-high-tolerance-for/)

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> [“Because the nature of all our God talk is inherently metaphoric and rhetorical, preaching will be a form of poetic rhetorical theology276 structured with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-schnasa-jacobsen/because-the-nature-of-all-our-god-talk-is-inherently-metaphoric-and/)

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> [“society. The task of theology was not to mirror the norms of culture, but when necessary to confront and even contradict them, since it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-schnasa-jacobsen/society-the-task-of-theology-was-not-to-mirror-the-norms-of-culture/)

[David Schnasa Jacobsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-schnasa-jacobsen/)

> [“Knowing that the purpose of a sermon is to move people one step deeper into God’s kingdom territory on this journey they’re all on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-schnasa-jacobsen/knowing-that-the-purpose-of-a-sermon-is-to-move-people-one-step/)

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> [“What reconciliation and redemption mean; what rebirth and Holy Spirit, love for one’s enemies, cross and resurrection mean; what it means to live in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-schnasa-jacobsen/what-reconciliation-and-redemption-mean-what-rebirth-and-holy-spirit/)

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> [“The church is not a religious organization or association, nor is the founding of Christianity a new religion among other religions; it is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-schnasa-jacobsen/the-church-is-not-a-religious-organization-or-association-nor-is-the/)

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