How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

Maybe you've seen some variation of it on a bumper sticker or heard someone say it.

It goes something like this.

It really doesn't matter which religion you follow.

We're all worshipping the same God.

How should a Christian respond to that?

Well, in this study on Through the Bible, we'll explore what God himself has said in his word about how to worship him.

Our teacher is Dr. J. Vernon McGee, and we're in the Old

Testament book of Zeffaniah at Chapter 2. Now, Dr. McGee received a very unusual letter many years ago,

and it's a good one. So let's hear him read it again now. It begins, I thank God often for your

ministry. I pray your broadcast might continue be carried at that station and in that

city. He says, I am an ordained Episcopal priest, and I went through seminary without really

knowing God and committing myself to him as my Lord.

Since I've come to know Jesus by His grace and mercy, I have learned to treasure and appreciate

his written word. Where in the past, I would study Time magazine, the New York Times, or the latest

Broadway play for sermon material, I now speak first and last from the Bible, and I have so benefited

from your program and for your Bible study method of looking at each book, each chapter,

each verse, and each word carefully and prayerfully, deliberately, trusting God to reveal himself.

Therefore, here at my church, I've decided to take up Ephesians and preach through it from chapter 1, verse 1 to chapter 6,

verse 24, going where it takes us. I'm not sure where we will go or how long it will take us,

but we have embarked on a journey with God and his word. I'm excited. Friends, you want to know

I'm excited too. I feel like throwing my hat in there if I had one. God is working today in

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