An Unofficial Resource Guide to BibleProject!
This fan-made resource guide connects each BibleProject video to all of its supporting materials – podcast episodes, study guides, blog posts, etc. – so we can more easily plan customized journeys of discovery through BP’s unparalleled learning resources.
Bingeing on BP videos and podcasts might make for smarter-than-average entertainment, but organized, intentional engagement can help us, our families, and our communities grow Jesus-oriented worldviews.
BP’s vision is “to see a permanent and worldwide change in people’s paradigm of the Bible.” They want us to stop treating the Bible like “a divine behaviour manual that dropped out of Heaven,” “a theology dictionary written to answer all of our questions about God,” “a devotional grab bag of spiritual one-liners and inspiring stories,” or “a tool for controlling people.” Instead, BP presents the Bible as “an extremely sophisticated piece of ancient literary art” that “speaks God’s word to his people” – and ultimately, as “an epic, unified story that leads us to Jesus.”
Dr. Tim Mackie says,
There’s a line that Jesus says to some Jewish leaders that he’s in an argument with in the Gospel of John. He says to them, “You guys are experts in the Scriptures. You study the Scripture diligently, because you think that in them you have eternal life.” And then he says, “These are the Scriptures that bear witness to me.”
Now there in one verse I think you have, in a nutshell, getting the horse first, and then the cart. In Jesus’ mind, the reason the Scriptures are a divine word, is not because you are being invited to a personal relationship with a book. You’re invited to have a personal living connection to Jesus, the risen Messiah. And the reason I read the Bible is because it’s a divine and human word that points me to Jesus. It points forward from the Old Testament, and then for the New Testament it points me backward, and it all centers on the person of Jesus. It puts Jesus, the living Jesus, who I don’t know apart from the Bible, but at the same time – the Jesus that I know is the Jesus rendered, represented to me in the pages of Scripture – but at the same time, Jesus isn’t the Bible. The Bible is a literary text that tells me and points me to an actual person who has a close connection to these texts but isn’t the same thing. He’s a person.
TBP028 What’s in your Bible? (2017-02-14), 45:10.
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An Unofficial Resource Guide to BibleProject 