Geographical
The gospel emphatically geographical. Place names--Sinai, Hebron, Machpelah, Shiloh, Nazareth, Jezreel, Samaria, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Bethsaida--are embedded in the gospel. All theology is rooted in geology. Pilgrims to biblical lands are sometimes surprised to find that the towns in which David camped and Jesus lived are no better or more beautiful than that hometowns they left behind.
If the fallout of our belief in the supernatural is a contempt for the one-horse towns and impatience with their dull-spirited citizens, we had better reexamine what we say we believe in. For supernatural in the biblical sources is not a spectacularly colored hot-air balloon floating free of awkward contingencies but a servant God with basin and towel washing dusty and callused feet.
Philip went and found Nathanael and told him, We've found the One Moses wrote of in the Law, the Once preached by the prophets. It's Jesus, Joseph's son, the one from Nazareth!: Nathanael said, "Nazareth?"You've got to be kidding." But Philip said, "Come, see for yourself."
John 1:45-46
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