The supreme source for the content of Scripture is not some person who's spinning out

yarns and myths from his own perspective, but the claim that the apostle is making here.

The apostolic claim is that the source of Scripture is God himself, that God breathes it out.

It's not uncommon for Christians to say that they're waiting for that still small voice of God,

as they're looking for direction and guidance in life, but God has spoken loudly and clearly in his word.

Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and thank you for joining us for this Monday edition of Renewing Your Mind.

As Christians, we should want to grow in grace and in the knowledge of God, but how do we do that?

All week we'll be featuring messages from RC Sproul series five things every Christian needs to grow.

He's going to lay out God's design for Christian growth and Christian maturity.

One of those ways is through the Bible. Have you read the Bible all the way through?

Perhaps like me, you got stuck in Leviticus and Numbers.

Well, today, Dr. Sproul will lay out an effective plan for reading the Bible and helping us grow in our Bible study.

Here's Dr. Sproul.

Today, we're going to start a new series of 10 messages that take us back to the most basic

foundational matters of the Christian life. We are told in Scriptures that God calls us to be the

craftsmanship of Jesus and that we are to be involved in those things by which we are nurtured

to come to the fullness of conformity to the image of Christ.

And so the five major concerns that we're going to be looking at in this series are these.

How to study the Bible, how to pray, how to be involved in worship properly, how to get involved

in service and how we can become good stewards of the resources and gifts that God has provided for us.

We look at these five things and we can include all of them under the general topic of what we call

in theology, the means of grace. These are by no means all of the means of grace, but what is

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