Really?
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And I can imagine a pastor, say, deciding to take several years to preach through the psalms and doing it in a way that gets repetitive... and being the last guy to realize it. In such a case, a pastor with a healthy relationship with his flock should hear about it, gently and encouragingly, well before people start walking out the door.
I believe this is the case with Johnny Mac [John MacArthur]. He is famous for going super slow threw [sic] books (40+ years to get through the NT and I think nearly six months for the parable of the prodigal son IIRC [if I recall correctly]).
Who needs to see the forest when we've got cells of bark to look at?
"Hey, look at me! I'm what we've decided a 'pastor' is! I'm going to teach the New Testament. Oh, by the way, it's going to take forty years! Now don't think this is about you. Or God. It's obviously about me! Listen to me! I'm going to spend six months on the Parable of the Prodigal Son! Got a problem with that? I hope not! Because God would have a problem with you! Understand? Now sit there and waste your useless 'laymen' lives while I indulge in a forty-year stunt that is the equivalent of forcing you to hear me sing show tunes until five in the morning every Friday and Saturday night of your lesser life for forty years! It's all about me!"
Really now church people... Is this how you learn what the Scriptures say and what biblical doctrine is? The very - very - passive act of sitting in an audience listening to a man disgorge his study notes at the rate of once-through the New Testament in forty years?
Really?
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A. W. Pink read through the entire Bible three times a year for ten years. That's how you get to know what the Bible says.
To learn the Bible you have to directly engage the Bible. To learn doctrine you have to directly engage biblical doctrine in on-the-mark, time-vetted works that are available to all in this era.
You've got to burn the candle.
All these 'pastors' who think their study notes are worthy of people's time is just one of the grotesque elements of modern day churchianity.
Christianity is a religion of the Book, which means to be a Christian you have to know how to read and to engage literature of a high level, and you have to actually do it.
These 'churches' are nurseries with mental patients intoning their precious study notes over psychotic lengths of time to adult children sucking their thumbs.
I saw a commentary on the single Book of the Gospel of John that was eight fat volumes long. And it's guaranteed that nothing other than a stunted, afraid, mainstream take on that book is offered therein. Otherwise it wouldn't have been published or have emanated from a 'church.' And even if it contained insights not found anywhere else it doesn't take eight volumes to present that. This is called *psychosis.*
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