The Blue Parakeet, 2nd Edition: Rethinking How You Read the Bible
(Paperback, Second Edition)
Publishing Details
The Blue Parakeet, 2nd Edition: Rethinking How You Read the Bible
By (Author) Scot McKnight
Zondervan
Zondervan
22nd August 2018
5th June 2018
Second Edition
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Personal religious testimony and popular inspirational works
Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts
Christianity
220.601
Physical Properties
Paperback
336
Width 139mm, Height 212mm, Spine 21mm
317g
Description
How are we to live out the Bible today In this updated edition of The Blue Parakeet, you'll be challenged to see how Scripture transcends culture and time, and you'll learn how to come to God's Word with a fresh heart and mind.
The gospel is designed to be relevant in every culture, in every age, in every language. It's fully capable of this, and, as we read Scripture, we are called to discern how God is speaking to us today.
And yet applying its words and directions on how to live our lives is not as easy as it seems. As we talk to the Christians around us about issues that matter, many of us wonder: how on earth are we reading the same Bible How is it that two of us can sit down with the same Bible and come away with two entirely different answers about everything from charismatic gifts to the ordaining of women
Professor and author of The King Jesus Bible Scot McKnight challenges us to rethink how to read the Bible, not just to puzzle it together into some systematic belief or historical tradition but to see it as an ongoing Story that we're summoned to enter and to carry forward in our day.
What we need is a fresh blowing of God's Spirit on our culture, in our day, and in our ways. We need twenty-first-century Christians living out the biblical gospel in twenty-first-century ways. And if we read the Bible properly, we will see that God never asked one generation to step back in time and live in ways of the past.
Through the Bible, God speaks in each generation, in that generation's ways and beckons us to be a part of his amazing story.
Author Bio
Scot McKnight (PhD, Nottingham) is the Julius R. Mantey Professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary in Lisle, Illinois. He is the author of more than fifty books, including the award-winning The Jesus Creed as well as The King Jesus Gospel, A Fellowship of Differents, One.Life, The Blue Parakeet, and Kingdom Conspiracy.
