Does the Bible Have Authority? In Your Life?

Just spent over 3 hours watching a very helpful, challenging and inspiring lecture on the accuracy of the Bible.

www.cslewisinstitute.org/node/1099/play

Some finals points that stuck with me:

there are 2 types of people in the world:

1) those who seek God

2) those who seek to avoid God

and both will be successful in the end

a person can say no to the bitter end

Romans 1²⁴Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. ²⁵They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.:

He gave them over, chilling words - He let them have their own way

a person can say to God

thy will be done

my will be done

God will never violate the picket fence of our own unwillingness

Does the Bible have authority?

3 options:

No - sweeping rejection

Maybe - problems exist

Yes - complete acceptance

Our culture is denigrating anything having to do with authority

Bible is always counter-cultural

Expect it

Question: Are we children of our culture or transformer or agents in culture - what paradigm do I embrace?

Belief in scripture will run against the current of the time

Men of Issachar understood the times and knew what to do

Know your culture, know your calling - be students of the world, and leverage your culture for the gospel

We should be seeking to be winsome - build truth into people, best thing to do transmute the currency of temporal to the currency of the eternal

Basic issues of stewardship (time-talent-treasure and truth and relationship: Take the temporal (time, talent and treasure) to things that go on into eternity: word of God and people