Saturday, February 21, 2015

Want to be a Relevant Christian? Quote Scripture


Recently, former megachurch pastor Rob Bell said this about the Bible in relation to the ongoing gay marriage discussion:
“I think culture is already there [with gay marriage] and the church will continue to be even more irrelevant when it quotes letters from 2,000 years ago as their best defense . . . ”
Really? The church is least relevant when it quotes scripture? Quoting the Bible is our worst defense?

But this post isn’t about gay marriage. Instead, it’s about this idea:

Christians are most relevant when they quote the Bible because its words are God’s words — and those words have the power to rescue people from sin and death and put this broken, busted world back together again. Keep reading

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