Quotes from Ron Martoia

The Bible is not an owner's manual containing complete do-it-yourself instructions on how to make the machine of life in relationship to God hum well. No, it is a dramatic script capturing the journeys of a number of faith communities and God-followers throughout the last several thousand years who—based on their knowledge of God, the questions they were grappling with, and the social context in which they lived—improvised on living the abundant life of God.

Education isn't about teaching people what to think, which is how we have spent a lot of church time, but to help them learn how to think and respond appropriately in real time in continuity with the script-ure.

people in congregations often look to a pastor as a sort of shaman. He said, "They want us to play the intermediary. They are highly dependent, if not codependent. They want us to give them 'the four steps to this, the eight keys to that, and the five insights for the other thing.

When people read the Bible, they are trying to discern how they are to live.

We have been hijacked by the modern world, where rules, principles, and propositions have explained how everything works neatly—including God.

The Bible is no different. The goal isn't to repeat or recite the Bible. The Bible has to live through the music I am making with my life.