The Bible and Missional Listening
October 13, 2008 - 3:16pm by ThomasScot McKnight began his lecture with several Cubs jokes and alluded to how he can write much faster than John Franke can.
The Bible is Story, God's Words and God's Story.
When approaching the Bible we should Look, See, and Respond.
Scot establishes a dichotomy of Authority and Relationship, posing the question, "What is our relationship to the Bible?"
Our relationship is not with the Bible, but with the God of the Bible.
Saying the Bible is inerrant really isn't saying very much. Saying it is true is far more profound.
The Bible is far more than Authority and Submission.
Authority and Inerrancy are inadequate terms, not wrong.
We must delight in the Bible.
A focus on a subject, the authority approach, is not enough. The Bible is relational, and finds resonance in delight.
God and the paper are not the same. An illustration: The Book of Jonah is about Jonah's God, not Jonah's whale.
God is more than the Bible, it is his communication in the form of words.
Behind all the doctrinal descriptions of the Bible it is still more than a repository.
A relational view of the Bible invites us to experience the Bible.
The Bible is a conversation between the different authors and their wiki-stories as they listen and relate to God.
The biblical books have their own context.
To read the Bible relationally is to read the Bible in community.
Our relationship with the Bible is a relationship with the God of the Bible. ... more






