This is out of context, but I want to thank Andrew again for the lecture he gave some time ago about the Bible and developing a habit of reading it daily, not for sermon preparation or Bible study, but to let the Word speak as it is. That lecture and the ensuing practice have changed my life. Thank you so much for your insight to that subject.

I am a reformed PCA member- I benefit greatly from this channel 😀

Been missing this channel, glad you’re back with a new video!

I was raised Baptist and was surprised that other denominations don’t read their Bible as much as were encouraged to do. By doing Bible study and memorizing scripture, I, not only am more knowledgeable and ready to give an answer for the hope that is within me, but I grow closer to my Savior clinging to His words and promises being sanctified and growing towards holiness. As a Lutheran now, I like the balance of the preaching that follows the church calendar and topical studies in Bible study classes.

Brothers! God’s peace to you. I’m a Lutheran of just over 20 years although this old guy is mid-60’s now. Lots of years in evangelicalism and I’m thankful for all the wonderful things that brought to me. On the apologetics question, a text I love to take people to is John 7:17. Jesus puts out a challenge to test His Word. This gets to the point you both brought out that questions are rooted in the will not the intellect for many. Jesus simply says in effect “take up and read,” and you just let me know what you find. He’s not worried. He trusts His Word. He’s encouraging us to as well. Thanks for your wonderful teaching and faithful shepherding of God’s sheep.

I think philosophy has a lot to do with the prevalence of the symbolic view. Emmanuel Kant, British empiricism, and German idealism seem to me to be part of the background to splitting the material from the spiritual. Philosophy starts in the academy and then filters down to the culture in popular form. And, of course, the early church was enamored with Plato, especially in the East.

I have a non denominational friend (Baptist) she and her husband do not currently belong to a church. She told me she goes to Bible class, as if that is enough.

Tv vs radio…TV tends to make the brain shut down in some way…check out an old book called 4 arguments for the elimination of Television. Think it came out in the 70’s and was written by a guy that used to be in advertising.

26:14 Where can I read about this vision? What follows are my thoughts condensed and badly edited, off the top of my head since I couldn't restrain myself and could talk about this topic for days. Coming out of the Baptist Church (IFB, SBC, then Freewill) into Anglicanism I would say the theology underlying Evangelicals in America is Baptist, and my experience & study of Baptist Theology as a Baptist revealed it as the most Reformed you can get, coming directly from the Separatist Puritans (deeply, irrationally, anti-Catholic, and individualistic) via the "Halfway Covenant" then influenced by the Great Awakenings which is, in my humble and lowly opinion, the Methodist influence Pastor Wolfmueller sees, but it was really more influenced by Finney who was a Presbyterian, than by Wesley who was a Old High Church Anglican and believed in Baptismal Regeneration, although that belief was dropped very quickly after his death, as the Methodists also began to draw on homegrown Puritan thought, since they were both enemies of the Anglican Church they both left. Basically a twice baked Puritanism. On Baptism for example, when you separate Water and Spirit Baptism like the Reformed/Calvinists do, it is impossible to not end up as Zwinglism eventually, because if you only need Spirit Baptism then Water becomes optional, and then actually dangerous to your salvation since you might trust the water and not actually get the Spirit, which in the Reformed camp would be because you are not of the Elect, but in Baptist/Evangelical Theology is related more directly to your emotions, which is simplify the logical endpoint of Puritan Calvinist thought on Assurance of Salvation, which is also emotion based, but more indirectly. You can read figures like Johnathon Edwards who say that the signs of being Elect are emotional; affection for God, affection for prayer, affection for listening to sermons and the like. This leads to constant doubt which is, from experience, deeply corrosive to faith and can lead to Apostacy. Evangelicals just cut out the problem by reshaping Christian Worship into something they already have affection towards which neatly fixes the problem, even if it does disconnect them from historic Christianity. It makes me think that there is something inherently Gnostic about Reformed thought since many Reformed ideas, and thus Evangelical ideas, show up in early Gnostic Christianity. It is easy to feel assurance in the deeply Reformed framework evangelicals use, if you redefine communion to be a emotionally moving worship song, rather than a ritual they don't feel affection for. The idea that worship of God and the things of God might be an "acquired taste" causes panic and doubt in salvation since you might not actually desire to attend church services over a concert. So if worship is a concert the problem is solved. I'll stop before I actually go on for days, but I want to credit Pastor Wolfmueller for helping me a great deal since it was his argument for infant baptism which convinced me. Presbyterian arguments for the practice are weak and actually contradict the rest of their theology, which is why the vast majority of Evangelicals reject the practice. If you look, it is almost always a reformulated halfway covenant argument vs the Baptist one in debates, the Lutheran/Catholic/Anglican/Orthodox view never shows up. Baptists win this match up easily, but when I found a Baptist debate a Lutheran on the issue it was not even a contest, I think it was Cooper and Ortlund I watched first after seeing your video on infants actually having faith. Sorry I still went on longer than I intended. Thanks for everything you do!

The antidote to bad bible study is good bible study, not no bible study.

We can trust that Catholic Bishops attended counsels and, led by the Holy Spirit, were able to discern which books were worthy of being in the canon, and which ones weren't.

How do you spell that - Swarbash?

I want to ask a question about original sin and Adam's guilt being passed down to us. I can't seem to find that his guilt was passed down to us in scripture but rather death was passed down. Any feedback will be welcome!

No air qoutes, only 1 Isaiah (and 1 Daniel)

Their first question: I think they missed his point. He was asking if evangelicalism creates a new sacrament out of Bible study.

Wow, so Satan came to him and in this way are leading so many astray!