Readability : 1
Length: 125 pp
Author: R.C. Sproul
R.C. Sproul’s little book is a great, clear, and simple explanation as to both why and how you should study the Bible. What I always love about Dr. Sproul’s teaching is that by simple I do not mean watered down. Although concise and easily readable, Sproul tackles big ideas and communicates them as a master teacher. This is one of those books every child of God ought to have read because I think they will profit by reading it. Never ignore a book that is rightly used to generate a love for the Book of books.
The preponderance of boredom that people experience with the Bible came home to me several years ago when I was hired to teach the Scriptures in required Bible courses at a Christian college. The president of the institution phoned me and said, ‘We need someone young and exciting, someone with a dynamic method who will be able to make the Bible come alive.’ I had to force myself to swallow my words. I wanted to say, ‘You want me to make the Bible come alive? I didn’t know that it had died. In fact, I never even heard that it was ill. Who was the attending physician at the Bible’s demise?’ No, I can’t make the Bible come alive for anyone. The Bible is already alive. It makes me come alive.
No Christian can avoid theology. Every Christian is a theologian. Perhaps not a theologian in the technical sense, but a theologian nevertheless. The issue for Christians is not whether we are going to be theologians but whether we are going to be good theologians of bad ones. A good theologian is one who is instructed by God.
No Other Boast 