The Weeping Prophet: Reflections on Jeremiah 31:27-34

October 22, 2010 by John Holbert

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Thus, when this new covenant is in existence, all we teachers are out of business, and all we preachers will need to find other work. There will, "in the days that are surely coming," be a direct and unbreakable connection between every person who calls on the name of God. The early Christians saw this new covenant as dawning in the life and ministry of the one they called Lord. Yet, obviously, the day, now two millennia gone, has yet to move beyond the mere shadow of that dawn. We still eagerly long for the day when all will know the Lord, from the least to the greatest. Hence, we still need teachers and preachers to announce the news: God waits still to write the Torah on all of our hearts.

John C. Holbert is the Lois Craddock Perkins Professor of Homiletics at Perkins School of Theology in Dallas, TX. His new column, "Opening the Old Testament," will appear every Monday at the Mainline Protestant Portal and the upcoming Preachers Portal at Patheos.

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John C. Holbert is the Lois Craddock Perkins Professor Emeritus of Homiletics at Perkins School of Theology in Dallas, TX.

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