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In Baptized We Live, Dan Erlander defines the “Living Word” in contrast to a “Dead Word.” He writes, “Scripture as ‘Dead Word’ is truth packaged in propositions with which we can argue, agree or disagree. . . . But scripture as ‘Living Word’ is truth manifest in an event, a story or an encounter through which God addresses us and calls for repentance, revolution, a redirection of life.”
