Fallen Into Knowledge

Several years ago, while in the midst of preaching through Ruth, a gentleman from the congregation came up to me and declared, “I know what you’re doing: you aren’t just teaching us about Ruth, but also how to read the Bible.” While I hadn’t thought about it that concisely, that is exactly what I was doing.
In fact, perhaps all sermons are both about the passage at hand and also a demonstration of hermeneutics - or, a lesson in “how to read the Bible.” Just a thought.