Traditions: The Bible

This series is designed to help us better understand our church traditions and why we do what we do. Find Jesus, community, and purpose. https://southeastcc.org Hey, happy Mother's Day, mothers are important. I don't know if you know this, but without a mom, you wouldn't be here. So celebrate your moms today. If you can, um, celebrate them, you can celebrate them. Um, we have a long way to go today. So are you guys ready to get to work? We're going to be talking about the Bible and, uh, why we have it, what it has in it, how we should understand it and kind of some big questions around the Bible. Because here's the thing, when you say yes to Jesus, you want to give your life to him, follow him, live his way and all that stuff. The Bible is a piece of that, and you get handed this really big book. It's intimidating! There's a lot of words and not very many pictures, right? Like, it's an intimidating book! It is, and there's all these different genres of literature and there’s, you know, like Leviticus, which we all can't wait to read, (sarcasm) and there's revelation, which nobody understands. And there's apocalyptic and law and letters and narrative and poetry, and all these different parts are intimidating! And it's written over this massive span of time, with all different kinds of educational levels writing it. So, the vocabulary for some is easy, some of them are better writers than others. Yes, they're all under the inspiration of the Holy spirit, but it’s just, it's a complicated book. So how do you even begin? Right? With the Bible. For a lot of people, what they do is they just slap it open and say, “I'm going to read that”. Now here's the deal, every word, every word, of the Bible, not even the letters, but the spaces in between the letters are dripping with the presence of God. So, the good news is God can work that way. He did, and the Holy spirit can meet you there in that space. But I would suggest that maybe a more strategic approach might be better.