Comments on: Whose Bible Do We Live By?

By: Teaching Children The Entire Bible Story

Teaching Children The Entire Bible Story — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:39:12 +0000

[...] This past Tuesday, Eric Bryant hosted a teleseminar with Scot McKnight as his guest. If you don’t already know, I have a man crush on Scot McKnight. He’s one of the best articulated theologians on this whole Third Way/Third Culture/Missional way of viewing things. Anyway, someone asked about how to best help people with not theological education read, interpret and understand the Bible for all its worth. One answer he had was to encourage people to read the Bible in its entirety and be familiar with it. That way we can interpret scripture in light of the whole. McKnight wrote a book entitled The Blue Parakeet which goes into that method of studying the Bible in more depth. I highly recommend it! [...]

By: Henry Zonio

Henry Zonio — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:45:22 +0000

Ha! Hopefully most of us never stopped emphasizing the Bible as a way of life. My point was that we cannot simply teach kids and families that the Bible is an instruction book or manual. It is a dynamic story of God's redemptive work throughout history. It lets us know who God is, how much he loves us, how we can best follow him and how we can be a part of changing the world around us.

We all need reminders, though. So, thanks for that.

By: jim wideman

jim wideman — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:33:03 +0000

I think that Jim Wideman guy is on to something on a return to an emphasis on the Bible s a way of life for kids and families! thanks for the mention

By: Henry Zonio

Henry Zonio — Sat, 30 May 2009 07:10:53 +0000

Ha! That is too funny! The important thing is to explain what you mean by "I will listen to the Bible and do what it says." Too many times we just leave it at that and expect that people will read it and understand it just like we do, when that isn't the case. If it were, we wouldn't have multiple denominations, etc.

By: Christen

Christen — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:32:15 +0000

Is this a bad time to tell you that this Sunday's 'special words' are 'I will listen to the Bible and do what it says'?!! I'll try to do it justice while your away!

By: @mattguevara

@mattguevara — Mon, 25 May 2009 20:28:41 +0000

This work is heavily based on NT Wright's seminal speech, "Is the Bible Authoritative?" (http://www.ntwrightpage.com/Wright_Bible_Authorit... Wright argues for looking at the Bible as the first four acts of a five act play. It's pretty interesting and slightly controversial. From my research on Emergent theology, many Emergents look to NT Wright (certainly Rob Bell does - they posted the aforementioned article on their church website years ago).

By: Henry Zonio

Henry Zonio — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:51:12 +0000

I agree. One way McKnight puts it in his book is that the individual stories are like "wiki-stories" of the overall story. While this analogy isn't perfect, I liked the picture. We need to relate the individual stories back to the overall big picture.

By: Henry Zonio

Henry Zonio — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:49:01 +0000

Thanks Matt for that link.

By: Timothy

Timothy — Mon, 25 May 2009 15:40:09 +0000

I dunno….
I haven't read the book yet, but your point is well taken. In fact, re-reading your post, I found myself nodding more in agreement than disagreement.
That being said….
I believe the intent of "doing what the Bible says" is to live in a Biblically congruent manner. I tend to get uncomfortable with those who make lists of rules and regulations from the Scripture, particularly when those rules are out-of-context. But we must never forget that, among other things, the Bible is "profitable for teaching, rebuke, correction, and instruction in righteousness." Since it is impractical to teach the entire 66 books in one sitting, we have to concentrate on the parts.
To me, one of the thrills of Bible teaching is when we take the parts and show how they fit in the whole. It's an ongoing process of surveying the forest, then dropping down to examine the trees, then pulling back to look at the forest again, and so on.
I'm looking forward to getting ahold of the book.