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The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible QUOTES

The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible QUOTES

1 " God did not give the Bible so we could master him or it; God gave the Bible so we could live it, so we could be mastered by it. The moment we think we’ve mastered it, we have failed to be readers of the Bible. "

― Scot McKnight , The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible

2 " Any method of Bible study that doesn’t lead to transformation abandons the missional path of God and leaves us stranded. "

― Scot McKnight , The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible

3 " God was on the move; God is on the move; and God will always be on the move. Those who walk with God and listen to God are also on the move. Reading the Bible so we can live it out today means being on the move—always. Anyone who stops and wants to turn a particular moment into a monument, as the disciples did when Jesus was transfigured before them, will soon be wondering where God has gone. "

― Scot McKnight , The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible

4 " readers. The story of the Bible is creation, fall, and then covenant community—page after page of community—as the context in which our wonderful redemption takes place. "

― Scot McKnight , The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible

5 " What we are looking for in reading the Bible is the ability to turn the two-dimensional words on paper into a three-dimensional encounter with God, so that the text takes on life and meaning and depth and perspective and gives us direction for what to do today. "

― Scot McKnight , The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible

6 " God did not give the Bible so we could master him or it; God gave the Bible so we could live it, so we could be mastered by it. "

― Scot McKnight , The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible

7 " God did not give the Bible in order that we could master him or it; God gave the Bible so we could live it, so we could be mastered by it. The moment we think we’ve mastered it, we have failed to be readers of the Bible. Of course, I think we should read the Bible and know it—but it is the specific element of reading for mastery versus reading to be mastered that grows out of this shortcut. "

― Scot McKnight , The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible

8 " The question we need to ask today is this, and this question strikes to the heart of how we read the Bible: Do we seek to retrieve that cultural world and those cultural expressions, or do we live the same gospel in a different way in a different day? "

― Scot McKnight , The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible

9 " They set the kindling afire to consume the body of a man who had but one goal—to make the Bible readable for everyone. "

― Scot McKnight , The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible

10 " We aren’t called to live first-century lives in the twenty-first century, but twenty-first-century lives as we walk in the light of the revelation God gave to us in the first century. "

― Scot McKnight , The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible

11 " God’s idea of redemption is community-shaped. "

― Scot McKnight , The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible

12 " The test results also suggest that, even though we like to think we are becoming more like Jesus, the reverse is probably more the case: we try to make Jesus like ourselves. Which means, to one degree or another, we are all Rorschachers; we all project onto Jesus our own image. "

― Scot McKnight , The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible

13 " I love my wife, Kris; I do not love Kris’s words. I encounter Kris through her words, but I am summoned to love her, not her words. Sometimes I say to her, “I love what you say to me,” but that is a form of expression. What I’m really saying is, “I love you, and your words communicate your love for me. "

― Scot McKnight , The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible

14 " We in the Western world are obsessed with our individual relationship with God, which leads us to read the Bible as morsels of blessings and promises and as Rorschach inkblots. But reading the Bible as Story opens up a need so deep we sometimes aren’t aware we need it: oneness with others under the King who rules his Kingdom. "

― Scot McKnight , The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible

15 " Oneness cannot be achieved just between God and self; rather, oneness involves God, self, and others, and the world around us. "

― Scot McKnight , The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible

16 " Until we learn to read the Bible as Story, we will not know how to get anything out of the Bible for daily living. "

― Scot McKnight , The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible

17 " In his incarnate life, when he becomes one with us, Jesus recapitulates, or relives, Israel’s (our) history. He becomes one of us. In fact, he becomes all of us in one divine-human being. Jesus is all Adam and Eve were designed to be, and more; he loves the Father absolutely and he loves himself absolutely and he loves others absolutely and he loves the world absolutely. He is the Oneness Story in one person. "

― Scot McKnight , The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible

18 " This otherness problem is what the gospel “fixes,” and the story of the Bible is the story of God’s people struggling with otherness and searching for oneness. "

― Scot McKnight , The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible

19 " It is important to know the blessings and to rely on God’s promises. Please don’t misunderstand my point. But the blessings and promises of God in the Bible emerge from a real life’s story that also knows that we live in a broken world and some days are tough. The stories of real lives in the Bible know that we are surrounded by hurting people for whom Psalm 22:1 echoes their normal day. "

― Scot McKnight , The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible

20 " Some people read the Bible as if its passages were Rorschach inkblots. They see what is in their head. In more sophisticated language, they project onto the Bible what they want to see. "

― Scot McKnight , The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible