A Rebuke to the Church and an Aim of Mine

"Only those who have journeyed through the Old Testament can appreciate the full splendor and glory of the New Testament and fully digest its fruit, and those who have not cannot. The consequence of a general ignorance about the Old Testament among the people of God is a pervasive reduction of the full message of the the New Testament to a basic gospel of atonement and individual ethics. I suspect many Christians feel spiritually undernourished because they live out their lives on the basis of about ten biblical texts. The spiritual life of the church would be greatly enriched by kindling a love of the Old Testament through a more thorough program of adult Christian education." (p. 16)

Source: Waltke, Bruce. An Old Testament Theology.

For this reason and more one of my aims this year is to understand more fully and be transformed by the Old Testament, and in this way gain more understanding of the New.