A)Frank Selihamer...
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Frank Selihamer, formerly professor of Old Testament at Hamma Seminary, has told audiences of a poster he once saw entitled, "The making of Prophet." It showed a humorous scene of a skinny boy almost knocked flat by what was happening to him. With his knees sagging, his mouth agape and his eyes nearly popping out of his head, he gazes up at a cloud with lightning flashes. A giant eye in the cloud's center peers out and a voice speaks to the newly-made prophet: "Well then, my son, having said yes, how would you like to have your goose cooked now?"
Any true spokesperson for God will get his goose cooked. Such are the dues of the prophetic office. Calling a people to their God is radically to usher in change, rebirth, pain. Yet such a prophetic role is promised to the people of God.
- Cobb
Frank Selihamer, formerly professor of Old Testament at Hamma Seminary, has told audiences of a poster he once saw entitled, "The making of Prophet." It showed a humorous scene of a skinny boy almost knocked flat by what was happening to him. With his knees sagging, his mouth agape and his eyes nearly popping out of his head, he gazes up at a cloud with lightning flashes. A giant eye in the cloud's center peers out and a voice speaks to the newly-made prophet: "Well then, my son, having said yes, how would you like to have your goose cooked now?"
Any true spokesperson for God will get his goose cooked. Such are the dues of the prophetic office. Calling a people to their God is radically to usher in change, rebirth, pain. Yet such a prophetic role is promised to the people of God.
- Cobb
