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On April 23, 1962 Karl Barth, the renowned 20th Century Swiss-German neo-orthodox theologian, spoke at Rockefeller Chapel on the campus of the University of Chicago. Following his lecture during a question and answer period a student asked him if he could summarize his whole life’s work in theology in a sentence. Barth said something like “Yes I can. In the words of a song I learned at my mother’s knee: Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.”
As Christians grow in their knowledge of God and His Word, they are often drawn to the logical complexities and theological controversies that puzzle believers. The more nuanced and difficult to resolve a matter or understand a text, the more many are drawn to make it an object of discussion and debate. There is a place to wrestle with such ideological conundrums, but doing so can be hazardous to one’s spiritual health. We who follow Jesus need to focus our minds and root our hearts in the most spiritual life-affirming realities of God’s Gospel and relationship with us. We can do no better than the reality that “Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.”
The Acts of the Apostles, Part 67 – Outline (PDF)
