Eminent sociologist, Benjamin Barber, once said, I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong or the successes and the failures....I divide the world into the learners and non-learners.
If I were to try to express why the elders at Memorial Drive seem to bless this congregation so much, one area would be that these men are learners. They seem to be driven to want to know what God has in mind regardless of herd-pressure of teaching what we have always taught.
If I would to try to estimate why some preachers seem younger as they age, while others seem old while very young, it would be discovered in the territory of learning vs. non-learning.
The very theme of the Restoration Movement implies to some, discover Truth and never budge from it. Yet, others in the very same movement see the reverse, discover Truth and continue to investigate as it is surely the same size as God.
I agree with Mr. Barber, the world isn't divided into the haves and the have-nots. It is split between those who hoard information and those who explore it.
Truth is of utmost importance. It is too big to be contained in a vacuum. It is too raucous to be cornered by tradition. It is too God-synchronized to be anything but luring as it bids us perpetual entrance into the yet to be discovered.
We must be on our spiritual toes; otherwise, we will reach errant conclusions before we finish learning.
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