"Relating to God's Word" (Ecclesiastes 1 & 12; Proverbs 1:7)

Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This year, we're going to talk about God sets us free to live wisely, beautifully in his world, redeeming all of our relationships. To relate with wisdom, we need more than superficial Christian cliches, or advice from influencers and chatbots. We need solid answers. We need to hear from God himself. When we understand how to relate to his teaching in Scripture— that fundamental relationship of listening and learning begins to transforms every other relationship in our life. This is the starting point. This is the beginning of wisdom. This is the beginning of living skillfully and beautifully. When God teaches— we listen and we learn, recognizing that his words are eternal, powerful, and personal. "The great paradox of the Bible is that the commands of God make spacious places of our lives. They don’t limit our freedom so much as they make true freedom really possible.“— Jen Pollock Michel“Whether anyone in the world is inspired by the Bible, the Bible is still inspired itself. It’s God’s Word to us. It’s God exhaling, God opening his most hallowed lips and speaking to us … Really, in its simplest form, we ought to come to the Word of God with the same sort of attitude with which we’d come to God himself. If God spoke to you, which he does in the Scriptures, if God opened his mouth to us, how would we approach him? Well, I think we would listen carefully. We would listen diligently. We would listen submissively. We would listen expectantly. And we’d listen with an aim to love and obey.”— Kevin DeYoung