Encounter God through the Bible: Lenten message from Reverend Roy Caudill
Enter the Bible and encounter a life with God. Wesley read to meet God, hear God, and respond to God. We can do the same. It is the call of Lent.
Growing up in Pennsylvania I can remember how my mother would have devotional materials and her Bible sitting on the table next to the oversized ragged stuffed chair in the living room. As a child, and a teen, I would sometimes pick up those materials and read. It was probably the earliest practice I can recall of entering into a life with God besides Sunday school and Church.
Richard Foster says that to engage the Bible is to enter into a life with God. Let me ask you; is that a life you want, a life with God? The Bible is a great place to begin that life. John Wesley knew that an objective standard was necessary for genuine spirituality. For him that standard was the Bible. You might recall that he was quoted as saying he was a man of one book. We know he was widely read, but the Bible was always the place from which everything was measured and then applied practically to life. The Bible is the authority for our faith and the practice of it.
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