This is the second of a four part series which will hopefully lay some of the foundations of what I hope to be doing here on Chris’ Considerations. Very simply may I encourage you to make sure that everything written or recommended here is faithful to the Bible. Please be biblically discerning and consider what is written here. Do be like the Jews of Berea in Acts 17:11.
Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so. Acts 17:11 (ESV)
Luke, who wrote the book of Acts, described the Bereans as more noble than those in Thesselonica, (Acts 17:1-9). Firstly ‘they receieved the word’ i.e. Paul’s message, (Acts 17:10-15), ‘with eagerness’. Secondly, here is the point I’m keen to draw out, they were ‘examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.’
In other words, Luke went so far as to call them noble for searching the Scriptures to make sure the teaching of Paul, called by Jesus Himself to be an Apostle, (c.f. 1 Corinthians 1:1), was true!
If the Bereans were called ‘noble’ because they made sure what the Apostle Paul said was faithful to the Bible, I do hope you’ll always search the Scriptures to make sure anything I write and recommend here is true.
Do let me know if you think otherwise. I’d be grateful if you did. I really want to be faithful to the Bible, which alone is the inspired and infallible Word of God.
For further reading see: Alywn Morris, Test the Talker
(While I’m on the topic, by way of disclaimer, when I recommend something, except the Bible, I’m not necesarily endorsing every detail.)
