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Correction and reproof is one of the ways God gets us off the path of destruction to the path of life.

So I think if a Bible teacher says, I get to have this ministry, even when it's saying hard words and love,

I get to have this ministry of turning people from God dishonoring destructive behavior or belief to a God

glorifying, life-giving belief, then that ministry of correction actually becomes something that's

a great privilege. Welcome to Help Me Teach the Bible. I'm Nancy Guthrie.

Help Me Teach the Bible is a production of the gospel coalition sponsored by Crossway,

a not-for-profit publisher of the ESV Bible, Christian Books, and Tracks.

Learn more at crossway.org. It's my joy today to be sitting across from

Dr. John Curry, who is Professor of Pastoral Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary. Dr. Curry,

thank you so much for being willing to help us teach the Bible. Well, thanks for the invitation.

It's a great privilege to be here.

I have love to get to hear John Curry preach. He has been a pastor at many churches for many years,

but most recently came back to his alma mater, Westminster Theological Seminary, to teach. Will you tell us how this love for God's Word and this desire

and ability to teach God's Word? How did that develop in your life? I wasn't raised in a Christian

home and I came to faith in my teen years. And in the church that I was in, they were very committed to the Bible

as the Word of God and the authority of the Bible. They weren't in the tradition that I'm in now,

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