TXT - Day One Bible Reading

OK we started a new series yesterday called TXT. We are exploring the Bible. Asking questions like... Is the Bible Reliable? How Do I read it? Is it important? What is the major theme of the Bible? Yesterday we looked at some behind the scenes in making the Bible.

I had a bunch of people yesterday asking for some more info on some of the things we discussed. There is one great place you can go for a ton of information that is similar to what we talked about yesterday... Starting Point. Hope that will help.

The following is Day One of our study of passages about the Bible. Special thanks to Ryan Allred our small group pastor put this together.

Inspiration

How do we find out what God is like? We can look out our window or inside the human body to see that something greater than us is out there, but we would struggle to know much more than that. What is this something like? Is he loving, mean, just, self-centered? Does he have our best interest in mind? Do we owe him anything, or visa-versa? We would still be searching for the answers to these questions if God has not worked to reveal himself to us. God’s actions and words have told us everything we need to know about him, and these are the things that the Scriptures speak of.

God so much wanted us to know about himself that he “breathed” the Scriptures into existence. God guaranteed that his words and actions were recorded for us the way he wants them recorded. And these words of Scripture were not given to us just to fulfill our curiosity about God, but rather they have some important purposes. To discover some of these purposes and their importance in our lives, answer the following questions in 2 Timothy 3:10-16.

In 2 Timothy an imprisoned Paul is giving vital instructions to his younger companion and friend Timothy.

1. Why does Paul encourage Timothy to “continue” in what he has learned from the Scriptures? How do similar dangers continue today?

2. Verse 15 literally says that the Scriptures are able to give “wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.” Understanding wisdom as applied knowledge, how would time spent in the Scriptures help grow your faith in Christ? What kind of additional knowledge do you think you need? How are you going to go about getting it? What do you already know that you have not yet applied? How are you going to apply it?

3. Paul says that our training in righteousness has a purpose. What is this purpose?

4. Many of us struggle with long-term motivation to spend time in the Scriptures. How does our purpose in being trained for righteousness provide the motivation we need?