The plumb line, as a biblical metaphor, helps us come to grips with the absolute terms of God’s authority. You don't argue with a plumb line. You simply conform to it. In the Old Testament (Amos 7:7; Isaiah 28:17), the plumb line depicted impending judgement: times of reckoning, destruction, and purging, when God lined His people up against the yardstick of His holiness. But the plumb line also presaged grace and hope, because for those who obeyed, God promised restoration and renewal...rebuilding according to His own standards (Isaiah 28:16).
The Plumb Line is the ministry of a small group of ordinary Christians. The name of this paper stems from our deep desire to lift the Bible up as the infallible Word of God, and thus our absolute standard for Christian living; the Bible also offers hope for renewal as we align all of our lives to its wisdom and direction. The Plumb Line is dedicated to two basic purposes: to maintain a prophetic voice for our times, and to challenge Christians everywhere to appropriate their calling as God’s royal priests. The first purpose means that we will try to expose current thinking, trends, and social structures (both in and out of institutionalized Christianity) to the test of Scriptures; and the second purpose means that we want to bring biblical principles into the everyday arena of practical discipleship.
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