I love his attitude. God speaks and above all, through His Word, He speaks to all people all of the time.
The great need of our time is for people to experience the living reality of God by hearing his word personally and transformingly in Scripture. Something is incredibly wrong when the words we hear outside Scripture are more powerful and more affecting to us than the inspired word of God. Let us cry with the psalmist, “Incline my heart to your word” (Psalm 119:36). “Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law” (Psalm 119:18). Grant that the eyes of our hearts would be enlightened to know our hope and our inheritance and the love of Christ that passes knowledge and be filled with all the fullness of God (Ephesians 1:18; 3:19). O God, don’t let us be so deaf to your word and so unaffected with its ineffable, evidential excellency that we celebrate lesser things as more thrilling...This is opposed to those that say God speaks only through His Word or those that only get excited when God speaks outside of His Word. I love Piper's balance.
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Thanks for linking to this great article by Piper. Unlike many commentators you seem to have firmly grasped what Piper is truly saying!
There is some intersting discussion going on about this article over at my blog
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