I thought I'd do a little series on advice that has impacted how I read, and in particular how I read the Bible. This is the first piece of advice (not in order of importance by the way!) although it is implicit rather than explicit:
"Luther opened the Bible to find Christ, Zwingli sought more simply to open the Bible." (p.75, Michael Reeves, The Unquenchable Flame: Discovering the Heart of the Reformation)
This one sentence is probably the most important thing to me I read in Mike Reeves's book. It reinforced the video below which I had seen on Dave Bish's blog.
I found that massively personally challenging. Am I reading the Bible with the clear intention to meet Christ and see his glory? If I'm not, I'm perverted in my use of the Bible.
One caveat. It is helps to come to the Bible with questions and a knowledge of Christ beforehand, but we must then allow the Bible to question our questions and our knowledge of Christ so that we don't find exactly the Christ we expected to find. You could argue that Luther did not do that as well as he should have, and that is why he had a bad attitude to James, Revelation etc.
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