Changing the Name...

I knew this was going to happen, and I think I may have mentioned it in the first post. I know my strengths and weaknesses, and my strong suit, if you've been reading this, is exegesis and theology. "Living by the Word" inferred that the blog was about Christian living, and it hasn't really been so much. So, it was time to change.

"Teleioteta Pherometha" [easy pronunciation: Tel-ee-oh-tay-tuh Fer-oh-may-thuh] comes from Hebrews 6:1a, which reads:

Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity...

 "press on to maturity" is the translation of "teleioteta pherometha." The plea from the author of Hebrews is leave behind the easy stuff... move on to a more mature thought life. I hope through the past few months of writing, I've helped some of you in that. The fact is- people just aren't concerned and have nearly no interaction with theology. They don't know where their Bible comes from, they don't know why believe the things they do, and its often because they just don't think about it. We've all grown up in a Christianity built on historical illiteracy. We don't know these things because we no longer care about what came before us, we are totally complacent in living in the now, being 'relevant.' Its killing us.

By introducing ourselves to theology, we don't just learn the topics- we learn the process. We learn the surrounding topics and learn why and how each piece of the puzzle fits together the way it does. And to do that for ourselves, rather than relying on someone to give it to us in a half-hour-long sermon once a week just doesn't cut it.

The urge of this blog is for you to Press ON! Keep studying, keep learning, and keep being introduced to new topics, new doctrine, new discussions. Always learning, never growing stagnant.

Stay strong,

Mike