So true!!! One of the big conversations I have with the pastors here (I'm part of senior leadership, so the feedback is requested and in order) is context over what I call soundbite theology - picking out a bunch of single verses without showing anyone how you got there. I'm proud of them though - one of the complaints we get now is that we "read too much Bible" in the service because we read entire passages or stories, not only in the "important/key" verse. It's harder to take things out of context when you know the original context.
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So true!!! One of the big conversations I have with the pastors here (I'm part of senior leadership, so the feedback is requested and in order) is context over what I call soundbite theology - picking out a bunch of single verses without showing anyone how you got there. I'm proud of them though - one of the complaints we get now is that we "read too much Bible" in the service because we read entire passages or stories, not only in the "important/key" verse. It's harder to take things out of context when you know the original context.