The Book of Strange New Things | It Is Written E2
John Mark Comer Teachings
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 1 March 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
What exactly is the Bible? If we misunderstand what the Bible is, we’ll turn in into something it’s not. John Mark makes the case that the Bible is a library of writings that are both divine and human, that together tell a unified story which leads us to Jesus.
Key Scripture Passages: John 5v39-40
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the John Mark Comer Teachings Podcast, it is great to have you with us. I'm Strawn Coleman, your host and part of the teaching team here at practicing the way. |
| 0:17.0 | Each week on this podcast we share a teaching from John Mark or other trusted voices in the formation space. |
| 0:24.6 | In today's teaching, John Mark continues to explore our assumptions about what the Bible |
| 0:29.6 | is, offering some literary background in helping us to grasp what it means that the Bible |
| 0:35.2 | is written by both God and humanity. Here's John Mack. |
| 0:58.2 | You study the scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life but these are the very scriptures that testify about me yet you refuse to come to me to have life. |
| 1:05.0 | When I read the scriptures, I for one have all sorts of questions. |
| 1:15.0 | Questions like, why the Bible? |
| 1:18.0 | Why read it, study it, invest hours and hours over the coming year to journey through the Bible as a community? |
| 1:27.0 | Why live under the authority of this ancient library as followers of Jesus? |
| 1:32.0 | And questions like, what is the Bible in the future? library as followers of Jesus. |
| 1:32.6 | And questions like, what is the Bible in the first place? |
| 1:35.6 | This is a weird alien strange thing. |
| 1:38.1 | What exactly is it? |
| 1:40.5 | And then what is it for? |
| 1:41.7 | What role does this play in the kingdom of God and life and everything? |
| 1:46.7 | And where does it come from? Rumor has it that we don't actually have the original manuscripts. |
| 1:51.3 | What we have is thousands of copies of the original manuscripts. What we have is thousands of copies of the |
| 1:54.0 | original manuscripts. Is that true? Is that not true? Is what we have reliable or |
| 1:58.2 | not? Is the Bible full of errors and contradictions? Yes, no, kind of, what's the story? And then of course how do I read it you ever think that you get down it's like I mean |
| 2:07.4 | obviously you read start at the top and go down but how exactly do you read it |
| 2:11.0 | and meet with God and read it with intelligence but also with the |
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