Gregg's Rest Stop (Bible Study is Worship)

Published: Mon, 01/20/14

Gregg's Rest Stop
January 20, 2014
  Journey in Christ

   Bible Study is Worship
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The Lord has prepared my heart to teach our annual Romans chapters 5 through 8 Bible study this coming weekend.  I can hardly wait! 
 
Nothing thrills my soul more than immersing myself in the profound gospel truths in Romans and sharing these truths with others. Nothing has transformed my life more than these truths.
 
I have spent much of this past year signficantly updating and clarifying the 66-page Bible study workbook I first prepared three years ago.  I hope to share foundational biblical truths through this workbook with many others in years to come.
 
The following statement testifies of my heart for this coming teaching weekend.  This is a vitally important excerpt from a book entitled Exposition of Romans Chapter 1, The Gospel of God by Martyn Lloyd-Jones.
 
BIBLE STUDY IS WORSHIP
by Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Pastor Westminster Chapel (1939-1968)
 
The Bible is not an ordinary book - it is God's Book, and it is a Book about God and man's relationship to Him. 
 
Therefore, every time we consider or study the Bible we are, of necessity, worshipping. 
 
In other words, I do not propose to consider this great Epistle to the Romans in a merely intellectual or academic manner. 
 
It was written as a letter by a great pastor.  It is not a theological treatise, written to experts and to professors. 
 
It is a letter written to a church, and like all other New Testament literature it had a very practical aim and end in view. 

The Apostle was concerned to help these Christians in Rome, to build them up and to establish them in their most holy faith, and, God willing, I shall certainly be trying to do the same thing. 

It is an occasion, then, for worship, and not really just a lecture.

 CLOSING
Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
And if anyone thinks that he knows anything,
he knows nothing as he ought to know.
But if anyone loves God,
this one is known by Him.
(1 Corinthians 8:1).
 
I am keenly aware that I can be tempted to fill the attendees of the Romans Bible study with a lot of good information which would only puff me and others up in pride.  
 
My prayer is that the truths I share with the Bible study attendees will keep pointing them to the Person of Jesus Christ. 
 
Dear Lord Jesus, teach through me this weekend!
 
Thank you for your prayers,
 
   
 
 
Romans Bible study flyer is below:
 
 
 
 
 



 


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