Some things don't uplift me as they do others.
Some things I'm quite over to tell u the truth.
The thought has come across my mind on whether a change is necessary, even when it appears to be the easiest way out.
Ever since hearing Don Carson speak at a recent Fri night session, I've been drawn to the despair of not receiving the solid biblical teachings I had been used to many years ago. To see and witness others revelling in the topical issues but yet fail to know the word of God for what it really says and how it is applied, saddens me greatly.
Meeting with some friends over the weekend at a BBQ, the topic of the Old Testament came up in conversation. This was mainly stemmed from a recent message with a 1 Kings passage that was talking about Elijah and the Mt Carmel incident, and then how he had fled to get away from Jezebel and was despairing in the desert.
The talk was basically on spiritual depression, and how life can get us down and is not always rosy as we want it to be. The topic itself was OK, but I honestly could not see the link to the 1 Kings passage at all. Ignorant I may have been, so could someone point me in the right direction on this?
Back to the BBQ conversation, a few of us were reminiscing about the studies we did in FiGS with the kids from the OT. Some of us were talking about the book of Judges and how the FiGS kids really enjoyed these, as they were nothing like what they had heard of before.
The Qs raised, was how rarely the OT is taught in Sunday School nowadays, and how some of us there at the BBQ knew heaps about the OT, when others who come to bible studies and go to church don't know much about OT history at all.
I'm not saying any of this as a means of bragging, but oh how I and others who may agree with me, long for some renewal in today's churches.
I really am so over topicals and songs with bridges in them that go on and on and on....
2 comments:
hahahaha songs with bridges!!! should go to hillsong etc. and complain :P As for OT, yeah... i don't really get it either... i mean, you can grab any passage and manipulate it to your ideal topic... but we shouldnt be squeezing the word and making it say what we want it to... cos its God's word and he has a message for us! oh well~ all we can do it pray
Actually, yes pray, but we can do more than that! It's the reason we work hard to provide solid Biblical teaching - to raise up a generation of leaders who WILL know the Bible well and know how to read the Bible for themselves. That way, they will know that you can't and shouldn't manipulate the text to say what you want, and they can in turn pass the baton of good teaching and grow the body of Christ. Soldier on faithfully, my dear fellow workers in Christ.
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