Fighting with the Bible basic steps

basic steps

Enrichment Lesson 10: The Story of the Prophet Elijah

and find little satisfaction or peacefulness in either

the curriculum helps children resist ideas that treat others as outsiders

or a local community garden alongside the church’s parking lot

Fighting with the Bible basic stepsIn times of conflict, the Bible is often used as a club to beat those whose opinions differ from one's own. We recoil from such usage, yet the Bible actually represents many diverse and conflicting points of view. It is like a library, full of books that speak to all sides of every question. Like Christians today, the communities and individuals who wrote the biblical texts often strongly disagree with each other. Ruth and Ezra, Isaiah and Ezekiel,