Concealed Weapon
This Week's Theme: The Bible
Thursday, March 8, 2001
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Key Bible Verse: "Is not my word like fire," declares the Lord, "and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?" (Jeremiah 23:29).
Bonus Reading:Isaiah 55:10-11
In 1978 interviewer David Frost invited me to debate well-known atheist Madelyn Murray O'Hair for nationwide television before a live New York audience. Before the taping I studied transcripts of Mrs. O'Hair's past encounters with believers. I learned that while she appeared to quote the Bible to support her militant anti-Christian views, she craftily used passages out of context and subtly rearranged words to change their meaning. So I decided to take my Bible to the debate.
Mrs. O'Hair scored her blows early, spitting invectives at Christians and aggressively interrupting. I kept my Bible unobtrusively at my side, but when she shouted, "The Bible teaches you to kill," I leaned across a startled David Frost and thrust it at her. "Wait a minute! You know this book, Mrs. O'Hair. Find where it says that. Read it to me."
She blanched, for a moment groped for words, then drew back in her chair shaking her head furiously. I thrust the leather-covered book toward her once more. She recoiled again. With that, the tide of the confrontation was turned, and she seemed subdued and on the defensive.
Charles Colson in Loving God
Respond:
Arm yourself with Scripture by choosing one passage and committing it to memory.
Thought to Apply:
The Bible is the only thing that can combat the devil. Quote the Scriptures and the devil will run.
Billy Graham (evangelist)
Adapted from: Loving God (Zondervan, 1983). 1 of 1
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