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🗓️ 7 June 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast where pastor and bestselling author Dr. Paul David Tripp |
0:10.7 | connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life. In this week's connecting clip of the |
0:16.4 | week, Paul and Shelby discuss the problems that come with biblical illiteracy and how we can become |
0:21.9 | more biblically literate in our own lives. To hear more of Paul and Shelby's conversation |
0:26.6 | on Grace, check out the Connecting Podcast episode 31, wherever you listen to podcasts. You can also |
0:32.5 | watch the video on Paul Tripp's YouTube channel or Facebook page. Here's Paul and Shelby on Biblical Illiteracy. |
0:44.2 | As I work with young people, one of the major things that I have seen that's characteristic |
0:51.0 | of what Gen Z, of course, and then Gen Alpha coming up |
0:55.8 | is the illiteracy, the biblical illiteracy that they have. |
0:59.2 | They just don't know some of the basic things. |
1:01.6 | And I've had to like purposely remind myself |
1:05.9 | that like, hey, what you're assuming right now, |
1:08.7 | me, Shelby, what you're assuming |
1:10.7 | is not common knowledge |
1:11.9 | amongst a young person because they don't open their Bibles, they don't read their Bibles, |
1:19.0 | they don't memorize their scripture. |
1:21.4 | And I think that we've set the bar very low for the next generation. |
1:25.1 | We assume that they don't want to know these things or they're |
1:28.5 | going to be bored by these things. But if they're understanding calculus at the age of 16, or they're |
1:35.2 | going through like scientific method and all that kind of stuff, there's some complexity in the |
1:39.9 | stuff that they're learning in school. Why would we not raise the bar for them and challenge them to get into scripture, |
1:47.6 | ask hard questions, |
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