'My Bible'

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  1. Kevin, thanks so much for your post! It really resonates with me on many points – and yes, while I love reading the Word in different versions and languages, I’m rather attached to “my Bible”!

  2. Kevin, I can fully relate to what you meant and how you feel about ‘my Bible’. I have a Kindle, but that seems to only show some benefit when I travel and cannot decide which books to put in my already overloaded luggages.

  3. Keviin: I don’t know you from…er…Adam, but I will say this…we live in a changing world. Though it may not be as romantic as holding a book in your hand, I’ll take a kindle carrying gal who lives out the Word in her life any day over someone who “cherishes” their precious Bible but gingerly steps to other side of the road when walking past a smelly homweless guy on the street. The Bible, not lived out in the lives of people willing to go to the mat for Jesus, often becomes a weapon or a set of rules that measure the level of our christian piety.

    I deeply appreciate your love for God’s message to us, but don’t you think the scrollers also thought it a bit of a sacriledge when civilzation swirched over to Bibles in book form. Do you really want to say to this younger generation that uses a “higher tech” way od getting to know God, that, somehow, their way is not quite as good as your way? I don’t think so. I’m certain that both you and I would agree that a life producing fruit is what pleases jesus the most.

    Having lived through significant changes in the church dealing with music, communion presentation, clothing standards and using video and PA systems, do we really want to discourage people from getting the Word in the most convenient and portable methods possible? I don’t think so. Otherwise we run the risk of spiritualizing one more thing that ends up turning good religion (which is so rare these days) into bad. Besides, my God is a living God that isn’t looking to see what form I eat His Word. He just wants me to gobble it up anyway I can because He knows it will help me to understand and trust Him more completely.

    When I meet you, I’m sure I’ll love you, my brother. But I just don’t agree with you here.

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