The God who Speaks - Core Study Response 3 Question:  In the midst of small group a discussion arises about the role of the Bible today. Some talk about how dry and irrelevant they find reading the Bible and how they would much rather God just spoke to them directly. They turn to you and ask what your view of the Bible is? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What do I think of the Bible? Well I agree with Mike Reeves, when he points out that through the Bible we get to know God. How? Because Jesus makes God known, as shown in John 14: “Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?” (John 14:9 - NIV) “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me”  (John 14:6 - NIV) and the ...

When I sat in science class about eight years ago, my teacher dissected a cow’s heart in front of us and proceeded to tell us we all had similar hearts pumping blood round bodies right now; leading to my sudden belief in the heart and its functions, and my inability to live without one. Akin to that revelation, has been the revelation of the Trinity to me thus far. If I had never known details of God’s three in one-ness, His triuneness would still not fail to continue making everything that is true possible; since every aspect of God is closely related to His creation and His will for it. Just as I lived ignorantly to my heart’s vital pumping efforts for many years, so have I to God’s truinity. Upon learning of the truth of my heart’s daily efforts to keep me alive, I was first led to awe and wonder. God, in the same way, revealing His existence in being an eternal and simple trinity has left me in wonder and a grown understanding and trust of Him. Being raised up as a Hindu meant...

Q:  In conversation with you, a keen and influential CU member starts whinging about certain music students in the CU who, as he puts it, “spend more time playing their instruments and doing community music projects, rather than getting on with the real work of evangelism.” He finishes by saying, “and in the end, all their instruments will melt in the heat of the day of judgment, so they’re just wasting their time, aren’t they?” How do you respond? My Answer: Evangelism, as you point out, is important work delegated to Christians. You are also right to prioritize eternal things, such as saving souls through evangelism. However, you claim to see playing your instrument or participating in community music projects as activities that conflict with time given to evangelism, whereas evangelism can flourish in friendship circles of common interests, such as music. You also claim evangelism to be the ‘real work’ of Christians, leaving  music playing and  projects to be ...

------------------------------------- Key: route taken Transcript of Ben Virgo's Speech -------------------------------------- Standing at the top of the stairs at the front of St Paul’s Cathedral  1300s - the time of John witcliffe Minister of churches in London back then didn’t know the 12 commandments, where they were in the Bible nor who wrote the Lord’s Prayer. Different to them Whitcliffe was born again from reading the gospel and then preached it - ‘the God against whom you’ve sinned has taken the punishment for you and is coming again. He was arrested. His trial happened here in St Paul’s for heresy. They burned him alive. John of Gaunt was in charge of Whitcliffe’s trial with Lord Percy: The conversation between them is said to have gone like this: Percy: Whitcliffe would you like to be seated? Bishop: Are you inviting the heretic to be seated? Percy: do you know who I am? Bishop: do you know whose house this is? And a riot breaks out Wh...