Our Daily Bread: Being Formed by Scripture
During the season of Lent, together we will be deepening our practice of Scripture as we learn ‘man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.’
Luke 4
Deuteronomy 8
Jon Tyson:
I am basically convinced that without a shared rule of life, based on tangible practices, discipleship won’t happen in a western context, radical individualism and consumerism are simply too overwhelming as seductive forces for individual christians to resist.
Ronald Rolheiser:
Lent invites us to stop eating whatever protects us from having to face the desert that is inside of us. It invites us to feel our smallness, to feel our vulnerability, to feel our fears, and to open ourselves up the chaos of the desert so that we can finally give the angels a chance to feed us. That’s the Christian ideal of lent, to face one’s chaos.
Charles Spurgeon:
There is a sweetness about my Lord which is precisely that which delights me. I cannot communicate it to you, for you must each one taste for yourself. I believe that the Lord has a flavour different to me from that which he could have to you, because our circumstances and our desires somewhat differ… each believer has his own special delight… When Jesus said “I am the bread of life,” He meant ‘I am the sweet bread, that satisfying bread, that delicious bread, the like of which is never found elsewhere’.
AW Tozer:
It is the nature of God to speak. The second person of the Holy Trinity is the called Word. The Bible is the inevitable outcome of God’s continuous speech. It is the infallible declaration of his mind - for us put into our familiar human words.
Discussion Questions:
Read John 119:1-8 together. What do you notice in this passage?
What does this text tell us about what God is like?
What does this text tell us about ourselves? How can you identify with the writer?
How might we live in response? Is there a verse that you can keep as your own prayer?
What is the good news we can carry with us for others?
Pray for one another that you may learn to praise God with an upright heart
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