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Unshaken Faith

#14 Are the Red Letters More Important Than the Rest of the Bible?

Unshaken Faith

Alisa Childers & Natasha Crain

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Today, Natasha and Alisa respond to a social media comment that read, “In my opinion, red letters/Jesus’ words are the most important in all the Bible.” Some progressive Christians will say that the word of God is Jesus himself, not the Bible. For Christians who are trying to live their lives according to God’s word, this can be incredibly confusing…especially if they can’t even agree on who or what the “Word of God” even is. Are the Red Letters more important than the black letters?

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Natasha Crane, and I'm Elisa Childers.

0:05.0

Welcome to Unshaken Faith, where we equip you to live your Christian faith

0:11.0

boldly in a chaotic culture. Recently a woman commented on social media about the views of the youth pastor of her church. She quoted him as saying, in my opinion,

0:35.1

red letters, Jesus's words, are the most important in all the Bible. The woman rightly

0:40.4

pointed out that this reflects an incomplete view of scripture referencing

0:43.4

Hebrews 412 which states, quote, for the word of God is alive and active, sharper than any

0:49.2

double-edged sword. It penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints, and marrow.

0:54.0

It judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

0:57.0

Some progressive Christians will say that the word of God is Jesus himself, not the Bible.

1:02.0

For Christians who are trying to live their lives according to God's word, this can be incredibly

1:05.8

confusing, since it can seem like Christians disagree on who or what the word of God even is.

1:10.7

We'll unpack these ideas in today's podcast, but first here's an

1:13.5

unshaken conference update plus our tips of the week. Well we're getting closer

1:17.9

to coming to Calvary Chapel Chino Hills. We're very excited to be joined by

1:22.1

our friend Frank Turrick to come to the

1:23.6

Southern California area and help equip you to live out your Christian faith in

1:27.7

this increasingly chaotic culture. So if you're anywhere in the Southern California

1:31.9

area we'd love to see you come out.

1:33.3

Go to unshakenconference.com to register for that.

1:36.7

And this might be a really good week if you're in the Southern California area,

1:39.8

if you're thinking about coming, to maybe mention it to your pastor, maybe mention it to some people at

1:44.4

your church to see if they might be interested in joining you for the Unshaken Conference.

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