Bible Study Magazine

p style=”text-align: left;”Look who’s on the cover of the July/August issue of a href=”http://www.biblestudymagazine.com/ ” target=”_blank”Bible Study Magazine/a! Our own Priscilla!!! /p
p style=”text-align: left;”In her interview she discussed her background, the mentors who have influenced and guided her, and the importance of biblical literacy. Here’s an excerpt from the story:/p
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p style=”margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;”“You want to seize and experience those opportunities when the Holy Spirit is speaking something specifically for your life. You don’t want to miss out on that.”/p
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p style=”margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;”She says it firmly, like a good Bible teacher should. But Priscilla Shirer isn’t exhorting anyone. She’s telling her own life story. The articulate, charismatic daughter of a preacher never intended to be the Bible teacher she is today; she had other aspirations./p
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p style=”margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;”“I always thought I’d be a television news anchor. You could not have told me in a million years that this is what I’d be doing with my life. This just wasn’t the plan.” /p
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p style=”margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;”That all changed when Shirer interned at a Christian radio station in Houston to gain credit for her communications degree. “People became familiar with me on the air and then would call in to say, ‘Hey, would you be interested in coming to share at our Bible study group?’ ” Shirer, an 18-year-old freshman, would show up at events to lead Bible study groups and conferences of 10–500 women. “I would just do what I’m doing now—share the simple truth of Scripture that the Holy Spirit is using to convict and challenge me. That’s really how it began…”/p
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p style=”margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;”Shirer becomes passionate when she talks about the expository teaching of the Word of God. “Women are hungrier now than they’ve ever been for the Scriptures. They don’t want to be fed just anything. They really want depth. … We live in a blessed day and age and generation because there have never been so many Bible study resources emfor/em women, emby/em women.”/p
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p style=”margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;”A large portion of Going Beyond conferences is dedicated to teaching women to study the Bible on their own. “At the Going Beyond events, we do a workshop called Hearing God through the Bible. … The purpose of this session is to give women tools so that they will feel equipped and capable to go home from the event, open up the Bible, read a Scripture verse, and know how to begin to hear God’s voice speaking to them through it.” /p
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p style=”margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;”And “hearing God’s voice” is a priority. “If we’re not careful, we will become dependent: We [will start to] expect these teachers and these resources to do the job of the Holy Spirit. The Bible says that the anointing, which is received, lives in emyou /emand teachesem you/em (1 John 2:27 esv). The exact same Holy Spirit that lives in the people we admire, who teach us the Bible, is the exact same Holy Spirit that lives inside of us. And, while we [should] appreciate and celebrate what God is doing through others we cannot become handicapped. [We can’t] emonly/em hear the voice of God when somebody else is spoon feeding it to us. We have to know that we can go to the Scriptures ourselves.” /p
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p style=”margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times;”Subscribe today and read the complete article in the July–Aug ’11 issue of emBible Study Magazine/em, published by Logos Bible Software. Each issue of Bible Study Magazine provides tools and methods for Bible study as well as insights from people like John Piper, Beth Moore, Barry Black, Kay Arthur, and more. More information is available at a href=”http://www.biblestudymagazine.com/” target=”_blank”http://www.biblestudymagazine.com. /a/p