1 Samuel 3:1-20
Psalm 139
1 Corinthians 6:12-20
John 1:43-51
Samuel, a foster child who hasn't a clue what his life is for. Corinthians, a congregation struggling with sexual ethics in a multicultural context. Nathaniel, a man who leaps from prejudice to gullibility in a single bound. Why are we reading their stories?
The short answer - their stories are our stories. This book tells our story.
What do we do with this thing? I think opening the Bible is like peeling layers of onion. Of course, some people never bother to open it. They just wave it around to prove that somebody else is wrong. But if you do open it, then the more you read it, the more you peel off its surface layers, the more you start to experience it. Like peeling an onion, the deeper you go, the more you cry. but I'll get back to that.
In the Episcopal Church, we don't wave the Bible. We read it, at least on Sunday morning, when we read a lot of it, maybe more than we can digest at one sitting.
But then what?
Well, it depends on what kind of questions we ask. The difference between a "Bible-believing Christian" and a Bible-believing Christians is this: What kind of questions do we ask?
Psalm 139
1 Corinthians 6:12-20
John 1:43-51
In the Name of Jesus. Amen.
Samuel, a foster child who hasn't a clue what his life is for. Corinthians, a congregation struggling with sexual ethics in a multicultural context. Nathaniel, a man who leaps from prejudice to gullibility in a single bound. Why are we reading their stories?
What do we do with this thing? I think opening the Bible is like peeling layers of onion. Of course, some people never bother to open it. They just wave it around to prove that somebody else is wrong. But if you do open it, then the more you read it, the more you peel off its surface layers, the more you start to experience it. Like peeling an onion, the deeper you go, the more you cry. but I'll get back to that.
In the Episcopal Church, we don't wave the Bible. We read it, at least on Sunday morning, when we read a lot of it, maybe more than we can digest at one sitting.
But then what?
Well, it depends on what kind of questions we ask. The difference between a "Bible-believing Christian" and a Bible-believing Christians is this: What kind of questions do we ask?
