Can you trust the Bible? All of it?
I wrote this book after a funeral in Pensacola. A 19-year-old had been killed by a drunk driver, and the little chapel was packed with young people hearing the unfiltered Word of God for the first time. They didn't need to be told to be a good person, or that everyone gets to heaven by a different road, or to just believe and it will all work out. They needed the real thing, and they leaned in like no crowd I'd seen in twenty years of pastoring.
That day convinced me: people don't need trinkets and platitudes. They need to know the Bible can be trusted, every word of it. The miracles, the hard parts, the places that seem to contradict. That conviction has a name, biblical inerrancy, and whether Christians hold onto it or let it go is the question the Church will stand or fall on.
Because once you start picking and choosing, where does it stop? Cafeteria Christianity always ends up with an empty tray.
What you'll find:
* Ten short chapters you can read in an afternoon
* Why the churches that loosened their grip on Scripture kept loosening until nothing was left, and what that history warns us about
* A plain-English explanation of what inerrancy means and what it doesn't
* A frequently-asked-questions section for the objections you've already heard
I've pastored at The Center for Executive Leadership in Birmingham since 2012 and taught Scripture at Birmingham Theological Seminary. I grew up singing "Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so." I still believe the second half of that line is what holds up the first.
You better learn this word.
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In the summer of 1995, George Shamblin left a successful career in pharmaceutical sales to enroll at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi. Though he experienced more than his share of challenges and setbacks over the next 28 years, it's a decision he never regretted.
Since 2012, Shamblin has been a pastor at The Center for Executive Leadership in Birmingham, Alabama, where he teaches Bible Studies and disciples others at various stages of spiritual growth. He serves on the board of Reel-Life International and has been an adjunct professor at Birmingham Theological Seminary. In 2023, he and his brother Keith co-founded a missions ministry, The Overseas Initiative.
Shamblin published his first book, The Relay, in 2020 and was inducted into Marquis Who's Who that same year. An avid outdoorsman, as well as a Master Gardener, George and his wife of 30 years, Jill, have four children Sydney, Bailey, Miller, and George Jr.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. Is Jesus the only way to Heaven? What should we believe about gender and sexuality? What part should the Church play in politics or social issues? These are just a few of the many questions being asked by Christians, the spiritually curious, and the openly antagonistic alike.But is Christianity a buffet? Did Jesus divide His teachings for us to pick and choose based on our feelings or current appetite?In "Inerrancy," George Shamblin argues that the way Christians view biblical inerrancy (the infallible truth of the Bible) is the main point on which the Church will stand or fall, that it is the most critical issue facing modern Christianity. "Inerrancy" is an unashamed affirmation of the truth of Scripture and its importance to the future of God's Church. It's also a reminder that compromise is a slippery slope-that Christians and churches who sacrifice Scripture on the altar of cultural relevance will eventually find themselves conceding principle after principle until their reason for existence is left behind.Through real-world examples and personal stories, with a bit of humor and plenty of hard truths, Shamblin shares how the ultimate truth of God's Word can and should act as the ultimate filter for everything we face in the world. Seller Inventory # CIN193935837XG
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