How to do Bible bashing without Bible bashing
Conversation in the kitchen while my flatmate does some dish-washing...
Me: (lamenting) I think I've got the basic point of the passage, but I just don't have any inspiration on how to write this talk.
Flatmate: Yeah. The thing is to see where it applies in your life, where it grips you, and it suddenly becomes easier to see what direction to take your talk.
Me: (lightbulb beginning to glow brightly above head) ...you're so right! Thanks, that's good advice!
Flatmate: (grin) That's the hard thing about being Bible-teachers. You forget you're supposed to be Bible-doers as well.
There's even a meta-application going on here: he was obeying James 1:22 at the same time he was pointing me to it. Or put another way, he was being a Bible-doer precisely at the moment he was being a Bible-teacher to me.
Me: (lamenting) I think I've got the basic point of the passage, but I just don't have any inspiration on how to write this talk.
Flatmate: Yeah. The thing is to see where it applies in your life, where it grips you, and it suddenly becomes easier to see what direction to take your talk.
Me: (lightbulb beginning to glow brightly above head) ...you're so right! Thanks, that's good advice!
Flatmate: (grin) That's the hard thing about being Bible-teachers. You forget you're supposed to be Bible-doers as well.
There's even a meta-application going on here: he was obeying James 1:22 at the same time he was pointing me to it. Or put another way, he was being a Bible-doer precisely at the moment he was being a Bible-teacher to me.
Labels: Bible reading, personal, slice of life
posted by BK at 10:10 pm
Thanks for sharing this really helpful entry. It's so simple yet so easily forgotten. How are you getting on at work?
Hey Kon Yew, great to hear from you! I'm pretty tired this week - loads of things going on. Plus, it's mission week starting this Sunday! Hope you're adjusting to being back home!
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