Restoring Apostolic Faith

The hardest conversations I have are with people dead-set on proving they “know the Bible.” They’ll grab a favorite verse and throw out a smug, “See? It says it right there” attempting of course to read verbatim but from an isolated perspective. When you do not actually understand what you are reading, you’ve slammed the door on true context- tone, culture, attitude, even sarcasm. And context isn’t a few verses up and down. It’s the whole chapter, contained within the letter it sits in, the conversation the writer was having with real people in a real place.

These were not fortune cookie lines from heaven- they were arguments, encouragements, rebukes, even irony. Tear one out of that flow, and you’re not standing on Scripture…you’re standing on a sound bite. Don’t be the one so consumed with teaching “your truth” that you lose sight of the chance to actually learn and grow yourself.