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in the channel. Stewart gave greater stress to the need
for fit pipelines.
Barth emphasized the fact that God speaks. This
divine communication is sheer grace, both in its content
and its use of the human instrument. "Humanly speaking,
it is a stark impossibility which here stares us in the
face--that men should speak what God speaks; but it is
one which in Jesus Christ is already overcome."e
Note, in contrast, Stewart's emphasis on the need
for faith to enable preaching to become God's Word.
"Christian preaching begins only when faith in the
message has reached such a pitch that the man or the
community proclaiming it becomes part of the message
proclaimed.'
Lloyd—Jones, too, saw Jesus Christ as God's supreme
revelation. Man's knowledge of Jesus comes from
Scripture, all of which "is really about Him." 1 ° In
effect, the only revelation man has today, centuries
after Christ's return to the Father, is the Bible. A
literal interpretation of its record of history,
salvation, and prophecy points us to the Christ of past,
present, and future. Preaching can become God's Word for
the hearer when it authoritatively proclaims the Biblical
message. "It is preaching alone that can convey the
Truth to people, and bring them to the realisation of
their need, and to the only satisfaction for their
need.""
The great emphasis Lloyd—Jones gave to Scripture as