Erik Thoeness - How do we Read and Study the Bible?
Dial In with Jonny Ardavanis
Jonny Ardavanis
5 • 663 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Jonny Ardavanis is the Lead Pastor at Stonebridge Bible Church in Franklin, TN and the President of Dial In Ministries. He formerly served as the Dean of Campus Life at The Master’s University and as a Camp Director at Hume Lake Christian Camps. Jonny’s heart is to see people understand and love the Word of God and more so, to love the God of the Word. Jonny is married to Caity Jean and they have two precious daughters.
Dial In with Jonny Ardavanis: Big Questions, Biblical Answers, is a series that seeks to provide biblical answers to some of the most prominent and fundamental questions regarding God, the Gospel, and the Bible.
In this episode Pastor and Professor Erik Thoennes answers the question: "How do we read and study the Bible?"
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, my name is Johnny Artivannis and this is Dialin. I want to thank you guys for your patience |
| 0:04.9 | as over the last few weeks I haven't released an episode. As some of you guys know, I recently, with my |
| 0:10.4 | wife, moved to Franklin, Tennessee as I took on the role of lead teaching pastor of Stonebridge |
| 0:16.4 | Bible Church here in Franklin. And over the last number of weeks, we've been getting settled in our new |
| 0:21.5 | home and our new church community and are so thankful that the Lord has led us here. Additionally, |
| 0:27.5 | last Sunday, we welcomed our second daughter. Her name is Scotty Joan, and so we're so |
| 0:32.9 | thankful to be parents once again. Well, in this episode, I sit down with one of my favorite guys. I had |
| 0:38.7 | released some episodes with him a couple years ago. His name is Dr. Eric Tonnis. Previously, we had |
| 0:43.9 | talked about how we are to approach God's word. But in this episode, I asked him, just practically |
| 0:50.3 | speaking, how do we read and study the Bible? |
| 0:54.7 | In this episode, Eric's going to make an interesting observation. |
| 0:57.8 | He says that many people want to call Christians Bible thumpers, |
| 1:01.1 | but interestingly, very few of them are Bible readers. |
| 1:05.6 | And so maybe you've asked, and maybe even you would want to know for someone else, |
| 1:09.1 | how can I actually read and study the Bible? |
| 1:11.6 | Dr. Eric Tonus is going to help us. |
| 1:13.5 | Let's dial in. |
| 1:21.7 | Thanks so much for sitting down. |
| 1:23.7 | A couple years ago, we had a conversation |
| 1:25.3 | about the attitude we should have as we approach the Bible, |
| 1:28.3 | meaning that we shouldn't live our life with, you know, trying to question the scripture. We should evaluate our own lives as we submit our life to Scripture and we view it as the highest authority in the world because it's the revelation of who God is. But even in that, I think that there's something more that needs to be compounded on top of that, |
| 1:49.0 | not only that we need to have this attitude of humility as we approach the truth, |
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