KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
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I CAN'T THINK of anything the church today needs more than members who read and know the Bible thoroughly...
And I know of no way for that to happen without reading the Scriptures again and again and again, "For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little" (Isa. 28:10).
One of the reasons the church is in the throes of controversy is that we have leaders -- elders, deacons, preachers, teachers (professors) -- who are biblically ignorant. They have studied all about the Bible but know little of the Bible.
The average people in the pew today are so biblically ignorant they will swallow virtually anything any preacher says. We have deacons so biblically ignorant we are afraid to make them elders. We have elders so biblically ignorant they are allowing doctrinally unsound preachers to lead their congregations into apostasy. We have preachers so biblically ignorant they are following the biblically ignorant denominationist preachers into the wasteland of doctrinal confusion.
Brethren, we must know the Book, and the only way to know the Book is to read it front to back again and again. And we must all know the Book, from the least (the smallest child) to the greatest (oldest). Read your Bible every day, but spend some quality time and effort in its reading. (Richard Norman, Gospel Advocate, used with permission)
KneEmail: “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord GOD, “ That I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of the LORD" ( Amos 8:11).