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The Role of the Bible in Society

June 2, 2010

As Christendom continues to unravel and the Church loses its privileged role within culture at large, we live in an increasingly biblical illiterate society.

– Quoting Scripture will mean less and less.

– Bible stories will be increasingly misunderstood or forgotten altogehter

– And the battles that Christians wage with one another over the objective nature of Scripture will continue to damage our reputation in a broken world.

For these reasons and more, there is an incredibly important conversation to be had regarding the role of the Bible in society.

In contributing to that conversation, here’s a 40 minute panel discussion from the recent Q conference here in Chicago between Tim Keller, Alastain McGrath, Dempsey Rosales-Acosta, and Brian McLaren (you can find brief bios on all these panelists here) on that topic.  I’m anxious to see what kinds of responses others might have to the questions and discussion here.

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