Today we're learning about learning looking at learning as a crucial part to the

Christian life, lifelong learning specifically is what we're talking about today.

The discipline is essential for local churches as well, so much so I'm reminded of

VAPJ 1804, Pastor John, where you encourage pastors to build a lifelong learning habit into their

churches so that as God's people disperse out into the world after that Sunday gathering when they go out into all their

various professions and fields of influence they can learn how to bring biblical

truth to bear in the world at school at work without expecting the

pastor to be the expert to answer all the ethical challenges they will

uniquely face in the world.

And so pastors are equipers,

getting their people ready to make wise and discerning decisions in their lives.

And to do this well, it requires a congregation to learn how to learn on their own.

For the next few weeks, we are going to focus on this discipline of lifelong learning,

and we focus here because, well, it's an important theme, and we focus here because it's an important theme and we focus here because it's the theme of your

brand new book titled Foundations for Lifelong Learning, Education in serious joy.

In this new book, as to be expected,

Pastor John, you employ hundreds of Bible texts to make your points,

over 500 citations throughout this little book.

But of the most frequently cited text in this new book that I see

include two texts that stand out, Matthew 13, 13, and Psalm 34, 8. that

that stand out, Matthew 13 and Psalm 34-8, texts that also factor prominently in your book reading the Bible

supernaturally.

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