The Bible: Book of Rules or a Tasty Snack?
This Sunday I am continuing my sermon series on the Bible as we seek to answer this all important question: "What authority does the Bible have over my life?" We used this text last week, which speaks right into the heart of what we'll be discussing this week: 2 Timothy 3:16-17 Last week I took a slightly different approach to answering questions of inspiration and the Bible. Rather than turning the discussion into an apologetic exercise with big theological words and lots of footnotes, I simply encouraged the congregation to have inspirational encounters with Scripture. If you think that's cheating, sue me. Apologetic exercises with big theological words and lots of footnotes aren't really doing a very good job of convincing both Christians and unChristians alike that the Bible is the inspired word of God. I figured that actually reading it, studying it, engaging it and letting it fall afresh on us might be a better way of "proving" inspirati...