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<div class="blockquote"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="blockquote" summary="Block quote"><tr><td width="10%" valign="top"> </td><td width="80%" valign="top"><p>You search the Scriptures, because you think that
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in them you have eternal life; and it is these that bear witness of Me; and you
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are unwilling to come to Me, that you may have life.</p></td><td width="10%" valign="top"> </td></tr><tr><td width="10%" valign="top"> </td><td colspan="2" align="right" valign="top">--<span class="attribution">Jn.5:39-40</span></td></tr></table></div>
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</p><p>The chief purpose of the book is to bring us to the Person. Martin Luther
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said “<span class="quote">we go to the cradle only for the sake of the baby</span>”; just so
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in Bible study, we do it not for its own sake but for fellowship with God.
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</p><div class="blockquote"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="blockquote" summary="Block quote"><tr><td width="10%" valign="top"> </td><td width="80%" valign="top"><p>The Jews to whom Jesus spoke [...] imagined that to possess Scripture was
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tantamount to possessing life. Hillel used to say, "He who has gotten to
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himself words of Torah has gotten to himself the life of the world to
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come." Their study was an end in itself. In this they were grievously
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deceived. [...]</p><p>There is neither merit nor profit in the reading of
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Scripture for its own sake, but only if it effectively introduces us to Jesus
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Christ. Whenever the Bible is read, what is needed is an eager expectation that
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through it we may meet Christ.</p></td><td width="10%" valign="top"> </td></tr><tr><td width="10%" valign="top"> </td><td colspan="2" align="right" valign="top">--<span class="attribution">John R.W. Stott, <span class="emphasis"><em>Christ the
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Controversialist</em></span>, InterVarsity Press 1978, pp.97, 104.</span></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div style="background-color: #white; color: black; margin-top: 20px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;"><div style="position: absolute; left: 20px;"><a accesskey="p" href="h2-importance-supplement.html">Prev</a></div><div style="position: absolute; right: 20px;"><a accesskey="n" href="h2-basics-approaches.html">Next</a></div><div align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></div></div><div style="background-color: #white; color: black; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;"><div class="navLeft">Supplement: Bible Reading
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