In Chapter 6 of my book i include A QUOTE FROM ROGER F. OLSON, A PROFESSOR OF CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY AT BAYLOR UNIVERSITY, WHO WAS INTERVIEWED BY LEE STROBEL. IT ADDRESSES THE FACT THAT GOD STILL SPEAKS TO US IN OUR TIME:
NO QUESTION . . . I CONTINUE TO BELIEVE THAT GOD SPEAKS TO HIS PEOPLE TODAY, ALTHOUGH I CONCEDE THAT SOMETIMES I FIND MYSELF FEELING PRETTY ALONE ON THIS . . . OFTEN CHRISTIANS OBJECT TO THE LEGITIMACY OF THESE ‘GOD THINGS’ BECAUSE THEY SAY PEOPLE DON’T NEED GOD TO SPEAK ANYMORE. AFTER ALL, THEY INSIST, THE CANON OF SCRIPTURE IS COMPLETE, AND TODAY GOD CHOOSES TO SPEAK THROUGH PREACHERS TO COMMUNICATE MESSAGES BASED ON THOSE BIBLICAL TEACHINGS. PERSONALLY, I FIND THAT ABSURD . . . IF GOD WAS GRACIOUS ENOUGH TO GIVE PERSONAL GUIDANCE, COMFORT, AND CORRECTION TO INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS ‘BACK THEN,’ WHY WOULD HE STOP?
WE SHOULD BE REMINDED THAT GOD IS THE SAME AS YESTERDAY, TODAY AND FOREVER.