Snippet: "Self-centered Bible Reading"

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Jackie Hill Perry’s answer to what challenges she and her husband are seeing in their ministry :

“{Preston], in his field in particular, would say the evangelical response to justice and social justice issues is such a stumbling block to a lot of the conversations that he has in the barber shop, on the street. …It’s an apologetics hinderance. …For me, especially since the lane I tend to fall in many times is sexuality, but also I’m at woman conferences all the time, there is a biblical illiteracy problem. I think there is self-centeredness to how we understand the Christian faith and even how we read the Bible.”

By the way, in my conversations I find that biblical illiteracy and/or a self-centered approach to Bible reading and interpretation (even by theologically literate people) is what makes conversations so difficult around biblical justice issues.

Self-centered ways of reading Scripture are hard to overcome for everyone. If we believe Genesis 3, that shouldn’t be hard to realize.

The conversation snippet has to do with apologetics in our age at the Jude 3 Project Podcast, the August 6 episode, discussing Hill’s new book, Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him. Definitely worth a listen to this episode, and now I have a new book to add to my list of books to read.

The Perry’s have a podcast I haven’t yet listened to called “Thirty Minutes with the Perrys.”