{"id":24238,"date":"1987-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1987-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/1987\/01\/01\/from-office-of-publisher-13\/"},"modified":"1987-01-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1987-01-01T00:00:00","slug":"from-office-of-publisher-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/content\/from-office-of-publisher-13\/","title":{"rendered":"FROM THE OFFICE OF THE PUBLISHER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Currently, I&#8217;m reading a fascinating Book-of-the-Month Club offering entitled The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. The author, a poetically gifted neurologist, discusses a series of case studies from the patients&#8217; point of view. The first study describes an exceptionally talented music professor who suffers from visual agnosia, a neurological disorder that inhibits one&#8217;s ability to process whole images.<\/p>\n\n<p>For example, while the professor identified and remembered specific details about someone&#8217;s face-an unusual nose, mustache, or beard-he drew a complete blank when shown a picture of his brother, mother, or wife. While in the neurologist&#8217;s office, he confused his wife with an adjacent hall tree and tried to lift her head from her body, thinking it was his hat. As he scanned a large National Geographic photo, his eyes would dart from one detail to another, picking up tiny features but never processing the scene as a whole.<\/p>\n\n<p>The author, Oliver Sacks, says, &#8220;He never entered into relation with the pictures a whole . . . he had no sense of landscape or scene.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>Dr. Sacks&#8217;s statement about never relating to &#8220;the picture as a whole&#8221; has stimulated a lot of thought about spiritual agnosia. I reexamined my perspective on the church and the ministry.<\/p>\n\n<p>Like you, I&#8217;ve been in a reflective mood while closing out the 1986 ministry year and pondering what might lie ahead. 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We&#8217;re losing ground; I fear for the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>Read: &#8220;I was carried away by the spirit of the Lord to a valley full of old, dry bones that were scattered everywhere across the ground.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>Heard: &#8220;I don&#8217;t see how we can make the church budget this year. We&#8217;re too far behind. That&#8217;s twice in the last three years we&#8217;ve missed our goal, and I&#8217;ve always suspected fancy accounting the third year. You know, with the new tax laws, we&#8217;d be smart to think of more realistic goals. Better to cut back now than face the embarrassment of cutting back six months from now.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>Read: &#8220;He led me around among them, and then said to me, &#8216;Son of dust, can these bones become people again?&#8217; I replied, &#8216;Lord, you alone know the answer to that.&#8217; &#8220;<\/p>\n\n<p>Heard: &#8220;I&#8217;m very tired of this kind of denominational pressure. If they want to call the shots, then they ought to send someone in here to deal with the problems. I&#8217;m to the place where I don&#8217;t care what they think. Let the chips fall where they may.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>Read: &#8220;Then he told me to speak to the bones and say: &#8216;O dry bones, listen to the words of God, for the Lord God says, &#8220;See! I am going to make you live and breathe again.&#8221; &#8216; &#8220;<\/p>\n\n<p>Heard: &#8220;Generally speaking, I am encouraged, but I think I&#8217;ve brought things about as far as I can. Let&#8217;s face it, it&#8217;s probably wise to move on while I&#8217;m ahead. Better to leave too soon than to stay too long. 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