Thinking tonight about Sunday morning and pondering what goes on……<\/p>\n
Does it seem reasonable that at our myriad iterations of Friendly Bible Church <\/em>that our focus should center on the Bible? It is, after all, the central word in the name; and the central WORD in our faith. \u00a0<\/p>\n Seems like there are alot of things central to church services today…..hip music, cool graphics,\u00a0sexy sermon topics, activities for every perceived\u00a0segmentation of the potential church-going market. \u00a0I just wonder if central to what we do when we do church shouldn’t be cracking the Bible open and explaining what it means in an unadorned way. Doesn’t that have merit?\u00a0<\/p>\n The purpose when we gather is to Make Much of Jesus. Simply put: to worship God. History records that teaching of scripture has always been central to worship; teaching that ostensibly is to produce a response from the learner—a life-changing conversation between God and man.<\/p>\n So I go off to church tomorrow wondering whether\u00a0there will\u00a0be\u00a0 Bible teaching, or will we be\u00a0entertained\u00a0with another drama,\u00a0a cool slide show, or maybe an amateur\u00a0rendition of the latest pop song?\u00a0<\/p>\n If you are headed out the door Sunday morning to\u00a0go to a\u00a0Baptist Church, may you witness baptisms;\u00a0at the Bible Church, may it be central; and may Christ\u00a0be central at the Christian Church.<\/p>\n It’s imperfect, but it’s a start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thinking tonight about Sunday morning and pondering what goes on…… Does it seem reasonable that at our myriad iterations of Friendly Bible Church that our focus should center on the Bible? It is, after all, the central word in the name; and the central WORD in our faith. \u00a0 Seems like there are alot of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}