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# Don’t short circuit texts
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/2007227dont-short-circuit-texts-html/
- Published: 2007-02-27T05:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:32:59.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Hermeneutics, theocentric, #DashHouseCom, #wp

From [an interview](http://buzzardblog.typepad.com/buzzard%5Fblog/2007/02/graeme%5Fgoldswor%5F1.html?ref=dashhouse.com) with Graeme Goldsworthy, author of [*Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Scripture*](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0802847307/dashhouse-20?ref=dashhouse.com):

> Biblical theology shows us that all texts do not have the same relationship to the Christian believer. What happens when people are not shown this is a tendency to short circuit texts. In other words, *evangelical piety can lead people to rush from reading a text straight into the question of what this says to us and about us*. But, there is one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus and biblcial theology helps us to see how Jesus mediates the meaning of any text to us. *The Christian is defined by his or her relationship to Christ, not to any other person or event. Thus all persons and events in the Bible must stand in a discernible relationship to Christ if they are to say something about us.*