“Creating a Reading Culture in Your Church”

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This is great! Mark Dever here explains what he does to create a culture of reading in his church. Can you imagine what would happen if we put his advice to work in our Mennonite churches over the next 15, 25 years? The only person I know well who has come close to following this advice is Allen Roth (former lead pastor at Followers of Jesus Mennonite Church in NYC), to whom I owe much of my growing passion for reading scholarly biblical literature, and who is a wonderful model of being a continual learner.

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“Getting Excited About Melchizedek”

If you want to finally understand that bit about Melchizedek, or what to know the real reason why we today talk about Jesus being our high priest, or just want to watch a veteran Bible student demonstrate how to read the whole Bible, paying close attention to the tiniest meaningful details and tracing how the Bible writers read their own Bibles… then watch this talk by D. A. Carson. (An audio file should also be available.) Zonya and I watched it together tonight and were blessed!

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“Why become ‘all things to all people’?”

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I think this is the best sermon I’ve heard on the following passage. Thank you D. A. Carson!

“To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings” (1 Corinthians 9:20-23 ESV).

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