What can the Bible do for you?

Sunday rolls around, and it's time for Christian therapy sessions. This week just hasn't been the best week of your life. So, maybe your pastor will talk about that one principle and that one thing you need to put happiness back into your life. Pushing past the introduction (i.e. the little prayers and the redundant three song tradition). You finally get to the meat of the Sunday service, the message. Halfway through the service, comes that very principle you were searching for, "be kind one to another". That's it! The Bible has come through once again! This is the one principle you need to make your life so much better and push you through till the next Sunday.

Maybe this is going to far, but maybe not! Jeremiah Burroughs brings to light a problem that is far too prevalent in 21st Century American Evangelicalism. He states, "You therefore must not only when you come to hear, think, I come to get something, I come to understand more than I did, and to hear such... and the like; but remember you come to tender up your Homage to God, to sit at Gods feet, and there to profess your subjection to Him: That is one end of your coming to hear Sermons" (Burroughs pg 164).

The Word of God and the Sermons that Christ preaches through His under-shepherds are not there primarily to further your knowledge of the Bible, shine light on a specific intellectual topic, or even to dispense the most suitable principle for the need-of-the-week (Burroughs 166). No, but "remember you come to tender up your Homage to God, to sit at Gods feet, and there to profess your subjection to Him" (164).