I Like How He Said It — Quotable #1

Some people can say a lot in a very few words. This post is the first in a new blog series where we’ll present a rich quote, and make a few comments.

This quote for the New Year is from Kenich Ohmae, a Japanese business and corporate strategist. He was probably speaking here of business, but his words are equally applicable to our effort to understand human embodiment.

We Need New Lenses…

It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them.

Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses.

Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away.

Comments…

In our world today, the pornographic view of the human body is a pair of glasses that—it would seem—almost everyone wears. So many wear them that we find both the church and the porn industry affirming the same false perspective… so we’ve all just assumed that it must be right… as if we’re really not seeing through any lenses at all!

But we are… and we are in desperate need of new lenses. It’s time to view the human body through the biblical lens of the Imago Dei.

— Pastor David Martin

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For more on this topic:

The Pornographic View of the Body
The Imago Dei

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