January 26, 2020 · 2 Timothy 3:16

5 Pillars: Grounded In Scripture

“The first of all is it is a revelation from God. It gives us an eternal perspective. It allows us to hear his voice with absolute and final authority, and it's also because theology always comes before praxis or before ethics. We always need to get what God is saying to us in the scriptures right before we start to try to figure out how we're going to act. It always has to be in line with the scriptures. It is also not just a revelation from God. It is a guidebook for life. It helps us understand how to live our lives. … And how from infancy you have known the holy scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. … Oh man, there's a lot of factors here. There's the continuity factors continuing on what we've learned. There's the wisdom factor. It helps us understand more about who he is. There's this resource factor. We realize it comes from God. There's the inspiration factor. It's inspired. I think about the word inspire. We have other words that have inspired it. Or respiration, perspiration. Inspiration is the idea of the Spirit of God actually coming up and out of us.”