"Bring the Bible Home to Your Life"
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FL Lifegroup 2/28
Q: Anybody have anything that God has shown them this week? Anything stand out in your devotions...etc.?
Prayer for one another
Micah
Virus to cease
Matt Parkinson
Mr. Parkinson looking at really physically intensive work schedule
Andrew and Candace, van be sustained
Steven
Review:
Slightly faulty premise: “Every encounter with God’s word should include at least one SPECIFIC application to our lives...etc.” (page 63.)
Not outright bad and definitely with the right intentions!
HOWEVER, fails to account for the complex nature of the Christian life.
The vast majority of our lives is lived spontaneously! (explain)
Our lives flow from the type of person we are, we just act.
“The nature of the Christian life is NOT becoming a better and better list-keeper. Rather, it is increasingly becoming a kind of person who is able to discern God’s will in complicated and unique circumstances.”
Where we left off:
“Come to the Scriptures to see and feel...”
The most important “application” we ought to seek in the Scriptures is aiming to “see” and be astonished at who God is!
Meditating shapes our soul, sometimes we gain immediate and specific application points, but ultimately we are seeking to be satisfied in our souls in the Lord Himself.
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
WB 4b Does this less “straightforward” way towards lasting change make you think differently about Biblical application?
Scripture Memory
Memorizing Scripture can have some baggage attached mentally
BUT, look to it as a thing for the present not just storing something up for the future!
So, it not only prepares us for the future in the sense of fighting sin…etc., but it contributes powerfully to the present in making us the kind of person who walks in the Spirit!
Col. 3:2 it is a big way we are able to have any hope of changing our way of thought!
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.
It is a way for us to begin having “the mind of the Lord” (1 Cor. 2:16)
“For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
On your own, check out page 72 and on for practical tips on Bible memory!
Also, gospel verses and passages starting on page 75
Lifelong Learning
“ongoing health in the Christian life is inextricably linked to ongoing learning.”
“The center of lifelong learning for the Christian is this: knowing and enjoying God Himself in Christ through the gospel word and the written Word of the Scriptures---in the hearing and reading and study and meditation and memorization of the Bible.”
Again, practical tips starting on page 86.