Faith Venture

I have always been a person of great curiosity. Science, technology, philosophy, literature—I’ve delved into all.

I evolved my approach to leading Bible studies over the 35 years from asking what did they mean to what does it mean—to us.

Intellectual curiosity can be pleasurable. More important is how we incorporate the teaching into our lives. I think that’s what Jesus meant when he invited us to live in the Kingdom of Heaven.

The Stoic philosopher Epictetus noted something similar when he wrote, “Philosophers advise us not to be contented with mere learning, but to add meditation likewise, and then practice. If, therefore, we do not likewise put into practice right opinions, we shall be nothing more than expositors of the abstract doctrines of others.”

I think of people I have known who can quote a hundred Bible verses, yet, whose lives, actions, words, belie any real knowledge of the Spirit of the words.

Don’t be a know-it-all. Be like Jesus living in the Kingdom of Heaven now.

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