In his closing paragraphs on dogmatics and proclamation Barth writes:
Even if we have again weighed everything and corrected everything and formulated everything better, as is our duty to the subject-matter of Christianity in respect of human talk about it, and even if our findings have been given the status of Church confession and dogma, we have still to say: We are unprofitable servants, and in no sense are we to imagine that we have become in the very least masters of the subject.
For someone whose life-work centers on preaching and teaching, it could be discouraging to know that I will never get it completely right. However, I find Barth’s words quite liberating. I do not need to strive to become the master of the subject, but to simply and humbly serve God.
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