advice to young pastors: read the bible lately?

Well of course you have.  Then why did you cringe with the title of this post?  Because you probably realize how incredibly daunting the Bible can be–you who wrestle with it week to week to make it sensible to others.  Those others can maintain the comfortable fiction that the Bible is a plain and simple text for plain and simple people, as accessible as Chicken Soup for the Soul or The Purpose Driven Life.
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