Sentences with phrase «of biblical literacy»

What it requires is a reasonable amount of biblical literacy and a determination to be completely honest.

They see people not living very biblically, and not really having a biblical worldview, and so they think that if they can raise the level of biblical literacy, this will raise the level of biblical living as well.

A lack of biblical literacy is not the problem; a lack of biblical living is.

When pastors and professors bemoan the lack of biblical literacy in the church today, they are telling people that the most important part of the Christian life is knowing more.

The level of biblical literacy is abysmal.

Notice that those who decry the lack of biblical literacy in the church often say that the solution to this problem is to come listen to their sermons, buy their books, and attend their schools.

I listen to pastors condemn the lack of biblical literacy in the church today and then turn around and say the most outlandish things about God or Jesus, and even crazier things about people of other religions, political persuasion, or sexual orientation.

This sort of gets back to the question of what biblical illiteracy actually is, but when I listen to the pastors and professors who are decrying the lack of biblical literacy in the church, I am often amazed to hear what comes out of their very own mouths, and it makes me wonder how biblically literate they themselves are.

I think sometimes this is what happens when certain pastors and teachers say that Christians must increase the level of their biblical literacy.

It is not uncommon to hear the pastors who decry the lack of biblical literacy in the church today to also preach against LGBTQ people.

The problem is not a lack of biblical literacy; the problem is a lack of biblical living and loving, and to be honest, you don't need to know much about the Bible in order to live and love like Jesus.

Not exact matches

Twenty - first - century biblical literacy and biblical spirituality thus necessarily involve a measure of historical - critical deprogramming, for both Church and world have mistakenly assumed that a dissecting approach to the Bible is the only intellectually mature approach.

low biblical literacy (e.g. applying Levitical Law out of context) 5.

We have heard William Blackstone earlier in this century announcing that new modes of transportation, growing world literacy, pestilence, famine, socialism, accumulating armaments, industrial conflict, spiritualism, Christian Science and biblical criticism were all signs of that spiritual deterioration which heralded the immediate return of Christ.

Another problem is that when people calk for biblical literacy and then see pain and problems in the lives of others, they either think that a Bible verse will help the other person, OR that the other person wouldn't be having these problems if they had just known the Bible better.

I almost didn't put this item in the list because I am about as uneasy with the concept of a «biblical worldview» as I am with the concept of «biblical literacy.»

If you hire a pastor who has the spiritual gifts of mercy, or service, his sermons will probably not be full of Bible knowledge and theology facts, nor will he place a heavy emphasis on biblical literacy.

Biblical literacy leads to a Biblical worldview, however I can see where people might differ in their understanding of what this worldview should be.

Those questions are somewhat of a caricature of the real biblical literacy tests, but they're not too far off.

If you believe in Biblical literacy and the infallibility of the Bible's writers, then those passages you quote and many others in the N.T. are indeed hard to understand, even after two thousand years of examination and discussion — at least without developing some fantastic theology that goes completely against God and nature.

Classrooms of children can take part in an interactive encounter within Noah's Ark, face down lions with Daniel, or take part in a host of other games that enhance biblical literacy.

What often happens in churches and groups that place a heavy emphasis on biblical literacy is that the goal in the Christian life seems to be little more than the accumulation of Bible facts and theological trivia.

I wouldn't even consider that now, of course, (as it would be an unintended mockery) but I still think Biblical literacy is good for literary purposes in general and critical for anyone who claims to base their lives on the book.

There is only one point in the New Testament, as far as I know, at which the gospel is preached to those entirely lacking in knowledge of the scriptures (most of the gentiles to whom Paul preached were among the sympathizers of the synagogue, so Paul could presume what George Lindbeck calls «biblical literacy»), and that is Paul's famous address on the Areopagus.

Scott Hahn has founded a study centre specifcally to «promote biblical literacy for Catholic lay people and biblical fuency for Catholic scholars and clergy» — a fruit of Pius XII's Divino Afante Spiritu and Vatican II's Dei Verbum.

Throughout the history of American public education, the practice of integrating the teaching of literacy and social awareness has taken many forms, from the explicit and blatant learning of religious vocabulary words and biblical themes in the primers of the 1850s to the more subtle lessons about the implicit social roles of the two - parent suburban life of Dick and Jane's family in the 1950s.