The Problem With the Bible | It Is Written E1
John Mark Comer Teachings
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
We have a problem with the Bible. More and more followers of Jesus in the west don’t read it, don’t now how to read it, don’t even like it, and frankly, take issue with it. So why do we follow the Bible? In this episode, John Mark looks at how Jesus talked about the Bible, arguing that we believe in the Bible because of Jesus's authority, not the other way around.
Key Scripture Passages: Matthew 5v17-19; Mark 12v35-36; Mark 12v18-27; Matthew 28v16-18.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, hello and welcome to the John Mark Comer Teachings Podcast. I'm Strawn Coleman, |
| 0:11.9 | your host and part of the teaching team here at |
| 0:14.3 | practicing the way. Each week on the podcast we share a teaching from John Mark |
| 0:19.0 | or other trusted voices in the formation space. In today's teaching, John Mark challenges our |
| 0:25.7 | culturally formed ideas about the Bible and inspires and invites us to a more |
| 0:30.8 | beautiful and biblical view of this ancient text. |
| 0:34.0 | As you listen, you may like to gently ask yourself, |
| 0:37.0 | what's my personal relationship with these scriptures? |
| 0:41.0 | Here's John Mac. We have a problem with the Bible. |
| 0:47.0 | Can I say that? Is that okay to say in church? |
| 0:52.0 | Can I call out the elephant in the room? We have a problem. |
| 0:54.8 | A lot of us in the room tonight don't really read the Bible in all honesty. If I were to take a poll tonight and ask how many of |
| 1:07.4 | you read the scriptures every single day even if it's just for 15 or 20 minutes every day my guess is the number would be really low. |
| 1:18.8 | If I were to ask the follow-up question, how many of you have read through the entire Bible from cover to cover my |
| 1:25.3 | guess that number my guess is that number would be even lower which is crazy |
| 1:29.8 | to base your life for the most part off a book you've never really read before, at least not all the way. |
| 1:36.0 | The reality is that the Bible is the best-selling book of all time. |
| 1:40.0 | Every year over year it sells something like 25 million copies, but one writer recently called |
| 1:46.3 | it the best-selling book never read. |
| 1:49.6 | We as a general, it comes in leather, which is is pretty red like who does that anymore but we as a generation in all honesty we really don't read it anymore |
| 1:59.3 | we listen to a teaching on the Bible at church or we listen to a podcast on the Bible |
| 2:06.4 | for like extra credit or something on a morning run or maybe you read a |
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