24
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2010

The Bible Is Not About You

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24 Aug 2010

Well, that is only partly true. The Bible actually has a lot to say about you, to you and for you; but, the Bible is fundamentally about “Jesus Christ and Him crucified.” How then can we understand the substance of the Scriptures as God understands it? Tim Keller does a good job of briefly explaining what the Bible is about in the video below:

About Post Author

Nick Batzig is the senior pastor of Church Creek PCA in Charleston, SC and an associate editor for Ligonier Ministries. Prior to serving at Church Creek, Nick was a pastor at Wayside PCA on Signal Mountain, TN. Formerly, Nick served as the founding pastor of New Covenant Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Richmond Hill, GA and as the editor of Reformation21 and the Christward Collective--sites of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. He frequently writes for Tabletalk Magazine, Reformation 21, He Reads Truth, and the Christward Collective. Nick was also the host of East of Eden, a podcast devoted to the Biblical and Systematic Theology of Jonathan Edwards. You can friend him on Facebook here and follow him on Twitter @nick_batzig

6 Responses

  2. nick batzig
    Reply

    I should not have posted a video with images of what Jesus supposedly looked like. That is clearly a violation of the second commandment. So when you see the pictures just think “Hey, that’s John the Baptizer, or Simon Peter.

  3. Tom Chapman
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    What a great video. Thanks for posting. Funny you should say that about the 2nd commandment because I was thinking that if I could post it on FB that I would put a warning for those with low 2nd Commandment thresholds. (I don’t see an issue with it here). Do you have a way this can be posted on FB or other sites? Was it somewhere else originally that might have it?

  5. TC Phelps
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    This is really, really good. The only improvements I can think of (dare I think that Keller can be improved upon!): 1. The Bible is about you only insofar as it reveals your sin (Law). 2. The Bible is really about Jesus Christ – who He is and what He’s done – FOR YOU (Gospel). Those last two words, FOR YOU, are needful, I think, lest some preachers end up brilliantly lecturing about redemptive history and the person and work of Christ w/o actually preaching Christ.

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