This weekend, I had the privilege of attending Hockessin Baptist Church's annual men's conference. Their keynote speaker was Mark Batterson, lead pastor of National Community Church in Washington, D.C., who shared insight from his recently published book: Primal, A Quest for the Lost Soul of Christianity.
In his book, Batterson shares this exceptionally powerful thought regarding Scripture from another Christian author, Eugene Peterson: "The words printed on the pages of my Bible give witness to the living and active revelation of the God of creation and salvation, the God of love who became the Word made flesh in Jesus, and I had better not forget it. If in my Bible reading I lose touch with this livingness, if I fail to listen to this living Jesus, submit to this sovereignty, and respond to this love, I become arrogant in my knowing and impersonal in my behavior. An enormous amount of damage is done in the name of Christian living by bad Bible reading. Caveat lector, let the reader beware."
May we as God's men take this charge to heart. In those times when our zeal for God's Word seems to be lacking, let us remind ourselves that the Bible is God's complete and thorough revelation of himself to his creation and has absolute relevance to every person who has ever lived in this world.
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