The Bible is Bigger than Your Bumper Sticker

Here is a very brief, yet marvelous reflection from Jared Wilson on the glory of the Scripture.

I want to bleed Bible. Don’t you? I want, when somebody cuts me open, my guts to spill out in Bible verses.

We are staring back along the wake of an entire generation of church teaching that treats the Bible likes Bartlett’s Book of Quotations. We swoop down toward the Scriptures quickly and snatch something, anything, that will do for a pick-me-up, a soundbite, a prooftexted inspiration. Jeremiah 29:11. Philippians 4:13. Romans 8:28. These verses and more we have decontextualized into a devastating discipleship deficiency. And then we act shocked when professing Christians who otherwise know some Bible verses do not portray the wisdom of the Word.

He concludes:

Be careful with how you use your Bible, then, to make sure it is actually using you. Consult its whole counsel. Don’t be an adherent of pick-n-choose-ianity. Reject sloganeering and cliche-peddling. Through the deep Word, become a deeper person. The Bible is bigger than your bumper sticker.

Please read the rest of Wilson’s exhortation, and please, please, take it to heart. Check it out!