Should Catholics Attend Protestant Bible Studies? (Part 1)
The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)
Ascension
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Are you considering joining a Protestant Bible study? Drawing from his experience as a former Protestant pastor, Jeff shares his insights on Catholics attending Protestant Bible studies. He discusses the differences between Catholic and Protestant approaches to Scripture, emphasizing the importance of understanding the historical context of the Bible within the authority of the Church. Additionally, he provides essential guidelines for Catholics who are thinking about attending Protestant Bible studies. Stay tuned for part two next week!
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Be especially attentive “to the content and unity of the whole Scripture” (CCC 112)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Jeff Kaven Show, where we talk about the Bible, discipleship, and evangelization, |
| 0:07.2 | putting it all together in living as activated disciples. |
| 0:12.6 | This is show 417. |
| 0:15.9 | Should Catholics attend Protestant Bible studies? |
| 0:23.0 | Welcome to the show, my friend. Good to have you. Hope you're enjoying winter. |
| 0:27.6 | Well, if you're in the south, you probably are. Up in the north here, we are really getting hit hard with some cold weather. |
| 0:35.2 | Yesterday, it was 15 below in the middle of the night. |
| 0:38.3 | And I think tonight it's supposed to get down to about seven or eight below. |
| 0:41.5 | So it's cold up here. |
| 0:43.1 | And that gives us all the more reason to stay inside and read the Bible and study the Bible. |
| 0:49.4 | And that's what we're going to talk about today. |
| 0:51.7 | One of the common questions that I receive is, should I |
| 0:55.3 | attend a Protestant Bible study? I'm a Catholic, and I'm not sure whether I should be doing that |
| 1:00.5 | or not. It's a good question, and I appreciate people being aware of the difference, and what are |
| 1:07.3 | some of the things that you should consider if you do do that? So I'm going to talk about that today a little bit. |
| 1:12.9 | And if you want the show notes for today, you don't get them right now and you'd like them. |
| 1:17.5 | All you've got to do is text my name, one word, Jeff Kavens, and you text it to the number 33777. |
| 1:26.6 | 3377. Hey, about a week and a half ago, I was able to go to Italy and I led a group over there, |
| 1:34.2 | and we had the most wonderful time over in Italy, had an audience with Pope Francis and got to go |
| 1:42.5 | to St. Francis of Assisi, went to that church, went to St. Clair, just had a wonderful |
| 1:48.8 | time. And I want to say hi, a shout out to all of my friends who went to Italy with Emily and |
| 1:54.0 | myself. We had a great time. So let's talk about Bible studies. And let's talk about a Catholic Bible study and a Protestant Bible study. |
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