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Mellow and grateful. Reading my friend Rod Culbertson’s As the Father Has Sent Me left me with both feelings.

On the one hand, of course my dad’s teaching permeates this book. So as I write this, I’m mellow—I miss him! And I share Rod’s view of him as a teacher. He was indeed the best teacher I’ve ever learned under. That flowed from his absolute aversion to teaching as a “monological information dump” and his determination that students themselves have the “Aha!” experience. Staying riveted to that objective radically impacted his teaching. This was perhaps uniquely true in what for many became their favorite course under Buck Hatch, Progress of Redemption. So I kept seeing and hearing dad as I read this book.

But the other sense is equally true. I’m deeply grateful for Rod’s effective and biblical unpacking of this foundational teaching of Buck Hatch. To be sure, Rod’s personal context, analysis, and life illustrations make this work his very own in a winsome way. To see clearly again the biblical flow of the purposes of God in the Scriptures, particularly in the Old Testament, will be very helpful to any who read. Far too many see the Bible as atomistic individual “pieces,” and rarely ever grasp what the Lord is doing from the beginning to the end of Scripture. Dad’s (and Rod’s!) reminder of the ways the Lord works—he has a plan, takes his time, uses fallible human instruments to change the world—are energizing.

I’m grateful that this broader understanding can be expanded through As the Father Has Sent Me. I warmly commend it to you.

Jim Hatch