Here’s the Explore the Bible Sunday School lesson commentary for Sept. 20, written by Don Fugate, senior pastor of Foxworthy Baptist Church in San Jose, California.
Over the past four years, I have written more than 100 columns for TAB Media Group through The Alabama Baptist and/or The Baptist Paper, focusing on congregations and associations. Now it is time to make a shift.
Mark Fugitt is wondering why nearly unlimited access to the Bible has not made people holier in general. The Southwest Missouri pastor explores this in “Quiet Time: The Past, Present, and Potential Power of Personal Bible Study.”
Ask a chatbot about a disputed Bible verse and you may get a tidy answer. Ask America’s pastors about the AI response, and you get a warning: That tidy answer could be a real problem.
“We’re still going to be hurting, but the brothers will be there. They still come back and support one another. No shrink could ever make a difference unless you actually do this job.”
“What we all saw in the evil of that day is how much worldviews matter. I remember well the chaos and confusion, realizing that our world had changed.”
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