Food For Thought

For my devotions today, I read a part of the book "Knowing Scripture" by R.C. Sproul. He brought out the most interesting point, so I thought I'd share it with y'all:
(he's talking about why people don't study the Bible and the myths they believe about it)
"Myth: The Bible is boring.
If we press people for an explanation for what they mean when they express the first myth [the Bible is too difficult to understand], usually they respond by saying, 'Well, I guess I can understand it, but frankly the book bores me to death.' This statement reflects not so much an inability to understand what is read as a taste and preference for what one finds interesting and exciting.
The preponderance of boredom that people experience with the Bible came home to me sveral years ago when I was hired to teach the Scriptures in required Bible courses at a Christian college. The president of the institution phoned me and said, 'We need someone young and exciting, someone with a dynamic method who will be able to 'make the Bible come alive'.' I had to force myself to swallow my words. I wanted to say, 'You want me to make the Bible come alive? I didn't know that it had died. In fact, I never even heard that it was ill. Who was the attending physician at the Bible's demise?' No, I can't make the Bible come alive for anyone. The Bible is already alive. It makes me come alive."


foreverHis,
~becca~