Watching Jeopardy! really puts me in my place.
Two or three times a year, I find myself watching Alex and three contestants make a go of it for the bucks and the glory. I always know from the onset that I will be totally ignorant of 80-90% of the material they cover.
It hurts the pride; and it’s good for the soul.
How dangerous is it then, when sermons and Bible discussions don’t go any deeper than the milk we’ve been teaching for years? Pride creeps in when I know all the answers…erggh…questions.
That was the greatest gift of God to me when I left for Bible college at age 18 to go be an Old Testament major; I learned that I knew NOTHING about the Bible…that I’d barely gotten started with God’s Word. And therefore, in many ways, I’d barely gotten started with the God of the Bible.