The It's a It takes constant effort and commitment to stay physically fit.

There are training manuals and blogs that provide fitness advice.

Spiritual fitness requires discipline as well,

but there's only one guidebook.

And today on Truth for Life Weekend

we'll find out why it takes a whole Bible to make a whole Christian.

Alistir Begg is teaching from 2 Timothy chapter 3, we're looking at verses 14 through 17. 17.

All of the Bible, all scripture is God breathed and is useful, first of all for teaching. That is why Jesus came teaching, a

wonderful teacher able to explain things so powerfully and so life-changingly. That's why the Apostles, when they stepped onto the stage of history

after Pentecost, were proclaiming the word of God. Barnabas sending for Paul in X chapter 11 because he recognized

that these enthusiastic new believers needed to be taught the Bible and so Saul met

with the church and taught great numbers of people and the disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.

Paul doing the same thing everywhere he went by the time he leaves the disciples behind in Ephesus in Act chapter 20 he says you know I

haven't hesitated to preach anything that would be helpful to you but have taught you publicly and from house to house. In other words, what he said in the public

discourse he reinforced in personal conversation and he encouraged those under his care to be taught. Now many of you are

teachers and what a noble calling to be a teacher, to have the hands, to have the minds and the

lives of youngsters and in some cases university students under your tutelage.

It is an immense responsibility and a high calling.

And the question for any teacher, and I class myself among them, any of us as teachers put

our heads on the pillow at night and we ask the question

or my students learning anything. And each of us who teaches will be judged first

not by the effectiveness of our teaching, but we will be judged for the motives of our teaching.

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