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Article: How do I read the Bible? Charlie Brown and friends offer practical insights on this crucial question.
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- Presbyterian Record
- Article date:
- April 1, 2000
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"I am convinced," James Smart writes in The Strange Silence of the Bible in the Church, "that the mounting ignorance of the contents of the Bible among members of the church ... constitutes the crisis beneath all the other crises that endanger the church's future." Belief in Jesus Christ will always depend on the Bible's witness to him. When memory of the biblical testimony withers away, belief in Christ will also wither away.
Is there a "mounting ignorance of the contents of the Bible"? Surely no self-respecting church members would find themselves on the same level as Charlie Brown's sister, Sally -- but it's hard to say.
"Take away the Scriptures," ...