You can exist and not be experiencing real life.

Dr. Tony Evans says the difference between merely surviving and truly living comes down to your connection with God's word.

If you want to live, there must be a dynamic, meaningful relationship with the Word of God.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the Word of God. This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical

teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans. A plant that's been starved of water will begin to wilt,

but pour water on its roots and life slowly returns. Dr. Evan says the Word of God works the same way in our hearts.

Today, he explains how Scripture isn't just informative, it's alive and life-giving.

Let's join him in First Peter for a reminder that we can't truly live without God's word.

What you eat has a lot to say about how well you're doing. And if you're not eating,

it ought not to be surprised that you're not doing well. Loss of energy, loss of weight,

weakened immune system. The absence of food jeopardizes the vitality of life. Well, that's certainly true in the physical realm, but it's also true in the spiritual realm.

What you eat determines how well you're doing.

Everybody wants to be alive, but you've got to eat to live.

The Bible positions itself as a life-giving document.

Jesus says in John 6.63, he says, my words are life.

Peter responds in that same chapter, verse 68.

He says, where else do we go to hear the words of life?

When the Bible calls itself the word of life, it means it is a life-giving source.

In other words, it imparts life.

Well, if the scripture imparts life and you want to live,

then that would certainly mean you're going to eat it.

If the scripture imparts life and you don't eat it,

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