All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
2 Timothy 3:16-17
The Bible is the gift that God breathed for our benefit that we “be thoroughly equipped for every good work.” The Scriptures are not dusty old scrolls or an unused book on the coffee table. The Bible is the definitive whisper breathed into the hearts of those who penned God’s message, who preserved God’s Word for us to have through time. It is the standard and guide for our life—in it is found the means to live life day to day and the revelation of eternal life in Christ.
In his book, The Spirit of the Disciplines, Dallas Willard asks the reader: How do Bible stories help? He then states, “Upon realistic, critical, adult reading, by those prepared to be honest with their experience, the Bible incisively lays bare the depths and obscurities of the human heart. That is why it continues to play the decisive role it does in human history and culture and why it is fitted to be the perpetual instrument of the Spirit of God for human transformation, as 2 Timothy 3:16-17 indicates.”
Change history, and change culture by merely having a heart transformed to be Christlike (Romans 12:1-3)—that process for the transformation is found in the Bible. The Spirit of God reveals in Romans 15:4 that, “everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.” Hope, births eternal life in Christ, and the Scriptures that have given that hope, in turn, are “useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
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