I've been musing on something for a while now. I wonder how much our 'instant' culture and it's unquenchable search for the new and the novel, and it's 'been-there-done-that-got-the-T-shirt' culture has impacted our Bible teaching. Do we fall into the trap of racing through books of the bible, teaching each passage in it once, chapter by chapter (or more if it's the Old Testament) and then moving on to the next book? Treating God's word like fast food to be consumed on the go.
Would we benefit more from a slow measured, prolonged, lingering over the feast scripture serves up to us in each passage. What if we didn't package and programme our bible teaching but rather chose to dwell in a passage for a longer period of time? What if we spent three of four weeks on a passage, mining it for the treasures it contains and the insights it brings? What if we were in a passage long enough to learn it, not just grab a couple of it's truths? What if we took time to marinade in it's teaching to apply it's depths deeply? How would that feel? How would it help us counter the culture around us of racing, time pressured consumption, before moving on to the next thing? How would it shape us and feed us in ways that are different to now?
What would we lose? What would we gain? And would we go back to a fast-food diet of scripture again?
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