{"id":1855,"date":"2020-03-07T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2020-02-29T10:20:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T17:20:35","slug":"embracing-christ-through-the-scripture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1855","title":{"rendered":"Embracing Christ through the Scripture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As we take on the challenge to listen to Jesus<\/a>, a recent blog from Heather Holleman<\/a> makes the point very eloquently that we read the Bible in order to get to know Jesus better. She writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I once again read Michael Reeve\u2019s book Delighting in the Trinity<\/a>, I underline this quote about his fear of how we read the Bible. He writes:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[Don’t] merely study the Scriptures as interesting texts instead of hearing them as God\u2019s very words that hold out Christ and draw us to want him. For the Spirit breathed out those words, not that we might merely alter our behavior, not that we might merely know about Christ, but that, as John Calvin wrote, we might have a \u2018sincere affection\u2019 for him, that we might \u2018cordially embrace him\u2019.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s easy for me to study the scriptures; after all, I have a PhD in literature…But to approach the Bible as a book, not of texts to study but as words that lead to the Word, spurs us to love scripture and to allow the Holy Spirit to teach us this supreme affection for Jesus. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s hard to improve on two accomplished authors! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And [Jesus] said to them, \u201cO foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?\u201d And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.<\/strong> (Luke 24.25 – 27, ESV, emphasis mine)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we take on the challenge to listen to Jesus, a recent blog from Heather Holleman makes the point very eloquently that we read the Bible in order to get to know Jesus better. She writes: As I once again read Michael Reeve\u2019s book Delighting in the Trinity, I underline this quote about his fear … Continue reading Embracing Christ through the Scripture<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-tV","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1856,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions\/1856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}