Applying the Bible to your life..and Silly Putty

Greg Koukl from Stand to Reason has an excellent article entitled Enhanced Solid Ground-Silly Putty Bible Study that helps you apply biblical promises to your everyday life. Koukl writes:

To many Christians, the Bible is like silly putty. Just add the Holy Spirit and it can be molded into almost anything at all.  That’s why I’ve devoted this issue of the Enhanced Solid Ground to offering a biblical argument against this practice.  I hope you give careful attention to the Scriptural case I present.

You can read the article in PDF format by clicking HERE. You will also want to download a helpful worksheet by clicking HERE.

Summary

    We can only legitimately claim a biblical promise if it is rightfully ours.

    We know if a promise applies to us by answering four questions: Who? What? Why? When?

    If the promise is for us, and we have satisfied the conditions, and the promise is for our time, then we can count on God to keep His word.

    If not, then we must leave the promise to its rightful owner and profit from the text by learning what we can from God’s faithful dealings with them.