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🗓️ 11 July 2025
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0:00.0 | Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life. |
0:08.8 | In the time it takes to get to work. |
0:11.0 | I'm Jeff Parrott. |
0:12.9 | Are you stuck with a flannel-bored version of faith? |
0:16.8 | The author Chuck de Groat describes this version of Christianity in his book, Healing What's Within. |
0:23.3 | He writes this, I still remember the dark and damp church classroom on Long Island, New York, |
0:30.1 | where I'd see the epic Bible stories come to life on flannel board. The vivid greens, |
0:35.7 | ocean blues, and brilliant yellows provided the landscape backdrop |
0:39.9 | to flannel figures of the great heroes of scripture. Now DeGroate is talking about the teaching |
0:46.8 | method for Bible stories used usually with children. It's a relatively polyanish patina of flannel or felt |
0:54.1 | boards, where characters and scenes seem more |
0:57.5 | peaceful, more simple than the events probably really were in history. If you grew up in a church |
1:03.9 | any time before the year 2000, maybe even after that, there's a good chance that you learned your |
1:09.2 | earliest lessons about the Bible through a |
1:11.7 | felt board or a flannel board. Now, to be clear, DeGroate is not critiquing the technique of the |
1:17.8 | felt board lessons in the church. Those tools can be faithful, meaningful, and age-appropriate ways |
1:23.6 | to teach the Bible to children. That's great. What de Groat critiques here is a version of |
1:29.5 | Christian faith that stays stuck on the flannel board, on the felt board, and it never grows |
1:35.9 | into a deeper exploration of the Bible, of human life, of sin, of our need for grace. He goes on to |
1:43.2 | write that these felt board images, they fail to convey |
1:47.0 | just how traumatic a life exiled from God and ourselves can be. So according to DeGroat, |
1:54.4 | if our faith doesn't grow up alongside our lived experiences, we can be left with a version of Christianity that's stuck on the |
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