Pictures That Warn (3 of 6)
Series: Jude
Robert Dawson
Jude 5-10
Mark Meynell in some preaching lecture's at Covenant Seminary in 2017 mentioned a study on identity and memory that ran on BBC Radio 3, the U.K.'s primary classical music station, ran a fascinating series of articles on music and memory. He referenced work by Adam Zeman, a Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, wrote about amnesia and memory loss and their relationship to epilepsy.
Zeman mentioned two patients, Peter and Marcus, who described their amnesia in very similar terms. One said: ''My memory of my past is a blank space. I feel lost and hopeless. I'm trying to explore a void.'' Both described how disconcerting it is to look at photos. Even though they recognize themselves, they have no recollection of the moment. One said that it's like ''reading a biography of a stranger.'' He's conscious of recent memories slipping away from him, like ships sailing out to sea in the fog, never to be seen again.
Two points stand out in Zeman's essay. First, without memory, it's hard to cling to an identity. So, one of the patients said: ''I don't have the moorings that other people draw on to know who they are.'' Second, it's hard to have hope when we don't know our past. As Zeman explained, ''The inability to invoke the past greatly impedes their ability to imagine a future.'' (Mark Meynell, ''The Pulpit and the Body of Christ,'' Covenant Seminary 2017 Preaching Lectures)
Jude calls on his readers to remember their past as a people. It's not that they had forgotten the stories of their nation's history in the OT but somewhere along the way they failed to grasp their significance, not just from a historical point of view but what it meant for them today. They saw the historical pictures, but they didn't understand them. They heard the stories, but they didn't see themselves in them. Because of that...
- The grip they thought they had on their identity slipped.
- They were endange ...
Series: Jude
Robert Dawson
Jude 5-10
Mark Meynell in some preaching lecture's at Covenant Seminary in 2017 mentioned a study on identity and memory that ran on BBC Radio 3, the U.K.'s primary classical music station, ran a fascinating series of articles on music and memory. He referenced work by Adam Zeman, a Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, wrote about amnesia and memory loss and their relationship to epilepsy.
Zeman mentioned two patients, Peter and Marcus, who described their amnesia in very similar terms. One said: ''My memory of my past is a blank space. I feel lost and hopeless. I'm trying to explore a void.'' Both described how disconcerting it is to look at photos. Even though they recognize themselves, they have no recollection of the moment. One said that it's like ''reading a biography of a stranger.'' He's conscious of recent memories slipping away from him, like ships sailing out to sea in the fog, never to be seen again.
Two points stand out in Zeman's essay. First, without memory, it's hard to cling to an identity. So, one of the patients said: ''I don't have the moorings that other people draw on to know who they are.'' Second, it's hard to have hope when we don't know our past. As Zeman explained, ''The inability to invoke the past greatly impedes their ability to imagine a future.'' (Mark Meynell, ''The Pulpit and the Body of Christ,'' Covenant Seminary 2017 Preaching Lectures)
Jude calls on his readers to remember their past as a people. It's not that they had forgotten the stories of their nation's history in the OT but somewhere along the way they failed to grasp their significance, not just from a historical point of view but what it meant for them today. They saw the historical pictures, but they didn't understand them. They heard the stories, but they didn't see themselves in them. Because of that...
- The grip they thought they had on their identity slipped.
- They were endange ...
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