Session 5: The Word of God
When we started calling the Bible the “Word of God” we unwittingly substituted a book and its principles for a vibrant relationship with the Risen Jesus and following his rules became more important than following him.
When we started calling the Bible the “Word of God” we unwittingly substituted a book and its principles for a vibrant relationship with the Risen Jesus and following his rules became more important than following him.
After the fourth session Wayne engaged the audience in a dialog about the material already presented.
The climax of Scripture is found in the person of Jesus and only be reading all of it through his eyes can we understand the revelational flow of Scripture that gently guides us to the reality of who God is.
We can understand the shifting insights of Scripture only as we read it as a progressive revelation of God to people who were thoroughly lost in the darkness and not as a rulebook we must observe.
After the second session Wayne engaged the audience in a dialog about the material already presented.
Why does it seem that God’s character shifts so much from the Old Testament understanding of him as the God to fear to the New Testament view of God as an Abba to love and trust?
What does it mean that Scripture is inspired by God after the way it was written and assembled? How do I know I can trust Scripture to reveal God’s truth to me?
(“A Conversation About Relationship With God”)
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