Hi, my name is Mary Lynn. I'm a wife, mother and grandmother, and women's ministries

coordinator in Seattle, Washington. You are listening to the Ask Pastor John podcast with

John Piper. Mary Lynn is a friend of ours and I want you to meet her in a moment, but first today's

question, Pastor John about a month ago in APJ 1993, an episode on expository preaching and

youth ministry should youth ministries work through books of the Bible. You

mentioned how artificial it is to distinguish between

exposition and application because the preacher is always moving from

language to reality. There's no faithful exposition of the text. If the

preacher isn't constantly feeling the tug from the words of the text to the

reality it's talking about. This is a profound of the

words of the text to the reality it's talking about.

This is a profoundly important point for preachers,

and there's a principle behind it.

So I was wondering if you could explain today on the podcast,

one line from your new book you have this new

book called Foundations for Lifelong Learning, Education and Serious Joy, and in the book

you wrote this quote, every therefore in the Bible and there are about 500 of them in the Greek

New Testament alone that word un oh you n every one of them is a doorway to life and love.

Explain this principle. How do these 500 therefores in the Greek,

which are translated in different ways into English,

all from that one Greek word.

How do these 500 of their fours in the New Testament

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