From Codification to Contextualization, Pejorative to Promissory, Rules to Relationship

Lisa Harper's Back Porch Theology

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Talk Radio, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

During today’s conversation on Back Porch Theology we’re talking about this engaging, exciting, captivating, compelling, LIFE-GIVING, divine love story we call the Bible. Far too many of us have sat under pastors, priests, teachers, and spiritual leaders who’ve communicated God’s Word with the same level of passion a court reporter has when recording HOA litigation over a homeowner’s grass being one half of an inch above the neighborhood standard. While others of us have had the imperatives in God’s Word applied to our lives in such punitive ways that we can’t help thinking of it as a rigid book of rules that we’ll surely get whacked over the head with. However, both of those extremes are gross misuses of the Bible – it was never intended to be used primarily for discipline or for memorizing religious data, and it’s not just a collection of morality tales like Aesop’s Fables, either. From the very beginning, Scripture invites and impels us to lean into a real, loving relationship with God. Just as He breathed air into Adam’s lungs to jumpstart humanity, He breathed these words into being so that we could have LIFE and have it more abundantly. If you’ve secretly thought the Bible was a wee bit boring, or maybe just inscrutable like those teensy-weensy printed directions regarding how to set up your new Wi-Fi router, today’s episode is going to be a Little Mermaid moment for you – it’s going to open you up to a whole new world! So please grab a cup of iced coffee and your Bible – unless you’ve got both hands full trying to recoil the garden hose that your teenager put back on the reel all wonky and lopsided! – and come hang out on the porch with us. The Adventure Bible is available here. Purchase Storyteller from Lifeway here. Click here to get a 25% discount on the Dwell Bible App.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, I'd like to invite you to go on a journey with us to explore the larger story of scripture
0:06.4	as told through the text of the Bible with the Storyteller series, which is published by Lifeway.
0:14.8	Storyteller is designed to take us through the Bible in a way that's beautiful and very interactive. Each volume
0:19.9	includes five short daily readings, really insightful commentary that will help provide context
0:26.3	and clarity to what we're reading as well as follow-up questions. Storyteller is available
0:30.6	at lifeway.com forward slash storyteller and of course that link is in today's
0:35.3	show notes.
0:36.3	Access more. During today's conversational back porch theology, we're talking about this engaging,
0:49.2	exciting, captivating, compelling life-giving. Divine love story we call the Bible. Far too many of us
0:57.0	have sat under pastors, priests, teachers, and spiritual leaders who've communicated
1:01.1	God's word with the same lack of passion a court reporter has when
1:06.1	recording HOA litigation over a homeowner's grasping one half of an inch above the neighborhood
1:11.3	standard.
1:12.3	While others of us have had the imperative above the neighborhood standard.
1:18.8	While others of us have had the imperatives in God's word applied to our lives in such punitive ways
1:24.3	that we can't help thinking of it as a rigid rulebook that will surely get walked over the head with. However, both of those extremes are gross misuses of the Bible. It was never
1:30.3	intended to be used primarily for discipline or for memorizing religious data.
1:36.7	And it's not just a collection of morality tales like Aesop's fables either, from the very beginning, scripture invites and impels us to lean into a real loving relationship
1:48.5	with God.
1:49.8	Just as he breathed air into Adam's lungs to jumpstart humanity, God breathe these words into
1:56.4	being so that we could have life and have it more abundantly.
2:00.0	If you've secretly thought the Bible was maybe a little bit boring, or perhaps just
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