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Thinking for ourselves

I was reading and participating in the conversation about Communion over on Bruce Chant’s blog and also having a conversation with my friend Chris about it and as we talked and I thought about it and had a lot of synapsis connecting in my brain over it. Chris and I agreed that a lot of people need to reread the Bible but work really hard to take out all the college, commentary, or church background stuff that we sometimes read the Bible with and see what God wanted to say to us. What is it that God holds as important? What does God have to say that some things has to much baggage with and has taken out of a denominations core beliefs but is in the Bible for a reason? We all need to take sometime and reread the Bible and see what God is telling us is important for His church to do or believe or be a part of. I will post a few more thoughts on this topic sometime soon.


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    We all end up filtering as we go through life. We filter what we hear the preacher say. We filter the books we read. And we filter the Bible. No matter how right we think we are we need to look to scripture with an honest attempt to understand it as God intended it to be understood. This practice has reinforced a lot of what I learned in College, changed perspective on other things, left me totally confused on a few issues, and completely reversed my position a a couple issues. But it took me deciding that no matter how smart my teachers and preachers were, they weren't the authority that would judge me. God's word was that authority.

 
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