What are we doing?

Why are you concerned about the church's intellectualization of the faith?

"The most important reason is because I don't read the gospels as intellectual treatises.  On the night before he died, with all the conceptual truths in the world at his disposal, Jesus asked his disciples to share food and wash feet—apparently trusting these physical practices to teach his followers what they needed to know when he was no longer around to teach them himself.  It is very hard to intellectualize food and feet.  When I ask Christians to tell me about their faith, 99.9% of them tell me what they believe.  Just once, I would love to hear someone describe faith in terms of how he or she lives." ---from an interview with Barbara Brown Taylor.

Taylor is so quotable. Many years from now, people will remember the words she crafts.
I thought about this remark, because it represents a challenge to us good Reformed thinkers.  The best of who we are as Presbyterians is represented by our deep engagement with theology; we really, really want to know what we think about God, and we really, really are good at thinking and writing theology.  But our gifts are also our weaknesses.  If this is the ONLY way we can encounter God--through our very left-brained rationality--then we are short-changing ourselves and our humanness.

All you BIND people--repeat after me...
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The mission is "to read, attentively, every word of the Bible in 90 days."

...not to understand every word, parse every word, even pronouce every word... just READ every word.  Let God be God for once, and enjoy your experience with the Bible.