The Blue Parakeet, 2nd Edition

Rethinking How You Read the Bible

By: Scot McKnight

Narrated by: Tom Parks

How are we to live out the Bible today? In this updated edition of The Blue Parakeet, you'll be challenged to see how Scripture transcends culture and time, and you'll learn how to come to God's Word with a fresh heart and mind.

The gospel is designed to be relevant in every culture, in every age, in every language. It's fully capable of this, and, as we read Scripture, we are called to discern how God is speaking to us today.

And yet applying its words and directions on how to live our lives is not as easy as it seems. As we talk to the Christians around us about issues that matter, many of us wonder: how on earth are we reading the same Bible? How is it that two of us can sit down with the same Bible and come away with two entirely different answers about everything from charismatic gifts to the ordaining of women?

Professor and author of The King Jesus Bible Scot McKnight challenges us to rethink how to read the Bible, not just to puzzle it together into some systematic belief or historical tradition but to see it as an ongoing Story that we're summoned to enter and to carry forward in our day.

What we need is a fresh blowing of God's Spirit on our culture, in our day, and in our ways. We need twenty-first-century Christians living out the biblical gospel in twenty-first-century ways. And if we read the Bible properly, we will see that God never asked one generation to step back in time and live in ways of the past.

Through the Bible, God speaks in each generation, in that generation's ways and beckons us to be a part of his amazing story.

**Accompanying quizzes are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2018 Scot McKnight (P)2020 Zondervan

Thought provoking

The most compelling argument presented by McKnight had to be his view on equality and unity in the Garden and the Kingdom of Heaven. His observation on how we all pick and choose what to follow in the Bible feels confrontational yet accurate. I appreciate how McKnight kept God’s nature and the Kingdom Jesus preached on most along with the entire Biblical text at the forefront.

Clear and compelling

I love the way the author articulates what often remains unspoken about how we read the Bible.

It’s well researched and clear. It’s obvious a long time professor wrote it—you can hear the light hearted and jovial way he likely teaches including a hearty serving of puns and dad jokes. The appendixes are some of the best parts of the text.

Negatives- The main text gets a little repetitive. And the narration was pretty grating.

A must read for all Bible Believers

How to read the Hebrew Bible, the Gospels, the Letters and The Revelation of Jesus in context, with history and tradition mind is vital to a follower of Jesus The Messiah. This book, thoughtfully, respectfully and carefully walks one through uncomfortable passages found in the scriptures. But, it leaves one with the tools needed to continue to learn as the Holy Spirit leads us into truth.

This Works

McKnight's metaphor works in a number of ways because we all have those Bible passages that cause us to struggle. A large section of the book uses the case study of women in ministry, which certainly qualifies as one of those types of passages.

very helpful

this is a great book to help you understand some difficult passages and verses in the Bible.

New lense to reading the Bible

I absolutely loved this audio book, I couldn't stop listening to it. I definitely recommend it. will be listening again. Scot McKnight does not disappoint with his research and delivering such on adopting and adapting in the church, as well as women in the Bible and today's church.

How to apply the Bible

A humorous and thoughtful analysis of fossilized tradition and cultural impact of the application of the Bible over history.

Excellent!

Wonderful book! He does great in diving into deep issues without losing the readers attention. I found the challenge to our typical reading of the scriptures both insightful and encouraging! Looking forward to digging into the Bible with a fresh perspective!

Great Read.

Simply excellent work. Content clearly laid out thru the book. I’ve learned so much and I am now compelled to continue the research and study of the content this book has introduced to me.

Informative

I especially enjoyed his thoughtful presentation of how women have been silenced. This should be most reading for the church as a whole.