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1 | Your thoughts on 40 Days of Purpose? | 2 Tim 4:2 | Hank | 158724 | ||
Dear Jim: For many years I taught an adult Sunday school class. During my tenure the class worked its way through most of the New Testament verse-by-verse. One day after class one of the students, a perky young lady of pronounced ideas and opinions, came up to me and read me the riot act. She said she was sick and tired of studying the Bible because it was so boring and accused me in so many words of being in a rut. She presented me with a laundry list of the new directions she wanted the class to pursue. She wanted it to explore other study materials, new and exciting ideas, current events, philosophy, world religions -- her list included just about everything but Bible study. ...... To this day I am happy that I did not yield to the demands of this young woman. In time she left my class and soon thereafter drifted away from the church. For her the time had come when she would no longer endure sound doctrine, just as the Scripture says in 2 Timothy 4:3. ...... This episode that occurred in my class a quarter century ago is a grim reminder of much of the restless foolishness that is going on in a shocking number of churches at the present time. ..... Readers of this Forum may recall a religious radio program called "Back To the Bible." I've always liked that title. Christians round the world ought to adopt it as as their slogan and send its message to the church and its leadership. Oh what decay I've personally seen in the church in the last half century! There is left only a thin frail line that distinguishes the church from the world, and it grows even thinner day by day. If ever there was a time to go "back to the Bible," this is it. --Hank | ||||||
2 | Your thoughts on 40 Days of Purpose? | 2 Tim 4:2 | newoldstock | 158767 | ||
Very well expressed, Hank. I teach the Wild About Wednesday bible study at my UMC and I am the only teacher in our church that goes verse by verse and sometimes word by word through the bible. I am now teaching 1John through Jude. Most of the other classes teach grief mgt., single again, growing old aint for sisies, world religions, and feel good stuff. At one point a few years ago, I tended to break the first commandment by making a god of Christian books written by men. I read every new book to such an extent that I neglected God's Holy Word. As I told you a while back, I became also so obsessed by which Bible was the best version that I spun my wheels and got no where. BTW, at one point, I got so obsessed by the Internet and this forum that I was spending less time with God and His Holy Word. That is why I have been on hiatus for quite a while. The Holy Spirit straightened me out. I say "Back to the Bible". Amen |
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