We Have Too Many Bible Studies
One of the devil’s finest pieces of work is getting people to spend three nights a week in Bible studies.
Why do people spend so much time studying the Bible? How much do you really need to know?
We invest all this time in understanding the text which has a separate life of it’s own and we think we’re being more pious and spiritual when we’re doing it. But it’s all to be lived. It was given to us so we could live it. But most Christians know far more of the Bible than they are living. They should be studying it less, not more. You just need to pay attention to God.
Wow… some good stuff I’ve been throwing around the last few days. I pulled this quote from an interview with Eugene Peterson, the author of The Message Bible, that my friend Joel email to me. So relax and don’t get so mad. It’s not my quote.
January 27th, 2006 at 12:21 pm
Good stuff!
January 27th, 2006 at 5:07 pm
Interesting,I just told Staven at dinner that the reason the world avoids us, is that we just do chuch stuff. So to speak. That what we need is interaction. Things that let us form REAL relationships. Stuff that lets unsaved be themselves and see us as peers. Rather than advisaries. We always appear ready to condemn others and what they want are answers. They are just afraid to ask us, because we will church talk them, and show them to the gates of hell rather than the throne of grace.
I love you Josh
Dennis
But we should study it know it and then we can better live it.
January 30th, 2006 at 7:32 am
That article has some great quotes, that being one of them. It’s amazing how quickly we tie ourselves up inside church functions and avoid actually going into the world. Studying is all fine and good, but it can quickly become a trap as Peterson says.
January 31st, 2006 at 7:50 am
Dennis,
Thanks for commenting on my site the last few weeks. It’s been good hear from you. I definitely miss all you guys.