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    Education or Imitation: Bible Interpretation for Dopes Like You and Me
    Education or Imitation: Bible Interpretation for Dopes Like You and Me
    Education or Imitation: Bible Interpretation for Dopes Like You and Me
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    Education or Imitation: Bible Interpretation for Dopes Like You and Me

    By Curtis Allen

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    To interpret Scripture rightly, imitate Jesus.

    The earthly ministry of Jesus was all about rightly interpreting and applying God’s Word. We can do the same. No special training required.

    In fact, right interpretation of Scripture, followed by right application, is the primary way that Christians are to be like God.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCruciform Press
    Release dateJan 1, 2012
    ISBN9781936760435
    Education or Imitation: Bible Interpretation for Dopes Like You and Me
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    Curtis Allen

    Curtis Allen is lead pastor of Solid Rock Church in Riverdale, Maryland, and moonlights as a Christian rap artist called Voice He also raps under the name Curt Kennedy. He and his wife, Betsy, have three sons. He can be found at CurtisAllen.net.

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      Education or Imitation - Curtis Allen

      Education or Imitation

      Bible interpretation for Dummies Like You and Me

      Curt (Voice) Allen

      Cruciform Press | Released November, 2011

      Shout outs:

      My wife, Betsy, and our 3 boys, Santiago, Giovanni, and Mateo. May we all know our Bibles well enough to imitate Jesus.

      My church family at The Rock! We’re not impressive, but we’re also not impressed.

      – Curt Allen

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      © 2011 by Joel R. Beeke. All rights reserved.

      CruciformPress.com | info@CruciformPress.com

      "Gritty. Real. Straight. That’s what you’ll find in Curt Allen’s treatment of Bible interpretation, Education or Imitation? And that is what we need because airy, heady, abstract works on Bible interpretation fail to do the one thing the’re written for - teach and inspire us to read, interpret and apply the Bible. If you want it straight, read this book."

      Thabiti Anyabwile, Author, Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church, Grand Cayman; Council Member, The Gospel Coalition

      Curt Allen’s book on interpreting the Bible is wonderfully practical and clear, giving believers basic principles for understanding God’s word. He rightly empasizes that every believer can understand the Bible. It isn’t necessary to be a scholar or preacher or to know Greek and Hebrew to grasp the Scriptures. Certainly, we are helped by teachers and scholars, but we can understand the Bible ourselves and need to test whatever others say by the Scriptures. Allen also shows that the Bible is Christ-centered. We are only reading the Bible rightly if we are seeing Jesus Christ, our crucified and risen Lord, in its pages. At the same time, the Bible is not just meant to be understood but to be lived out in out everyday lives. I recommend gladly such an accessible, Christ-centered, and practical book on interpreting the Scriptures.

      Thomas R. Screiner, James Bucahanan Harrison Professor of New Testament Interpretation, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucy

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      Table of Contents

      Chapters

      One Why Interpretation Matters in Everything

      What You Don’t Know Can Kill You

      Two From the Garden to a Grainfield

      A Brief History of Bad Interpretation

      Three Jesus the Interpreter

      Interpretation Is More About Imitation Than Education

      Four From Interpretation to Application

      Jesus, the Pharisees, and the Sabbath

      Five From Me-ology to Theology

      Recognizing the Obstacles to Interpretation

      One

      Why Interpretation Matters in Everything

      What You Don’t Know Can Kill You

      I sat in a smoke-filled room in an apartment complex in Laurel, Maryland, watching Jerry and José. They were city boys from New York, and they had the undivided attention of some dudes from my ‘hood.

      The rest of us in the room called ourselves The Second Gen, or The Gen. We were the newest generation of street thugs active in and around Washington, DC. All of us were criminals by nature and most of us were criminals under the law. Drugs, guns, drug deals, violent crime, handcuffs, mug shots, indictments, court cases, and prison time were just part of our lifestyle. At that time, DC was known as the murder capital of the United States, and for good reason.

      Even though I was one of the best-known drug dealers in the area, I was one of the few from The Gen who hadn’t been arrested yet. I made thousands of dollars a week selling crack cocaine to people from all over the place. I was proud of it, and I was proud of the fact that my ‘hood respected me for it. I respected them, too. I had learned a lot about the street game from these dudes. They had taught me how to survive on evil streets.

      Another thing I respected about these guys was their ability to read people. I had always been good at this myself and, as we say in the street, game recognizes game. You respect others who are like you. I trusted these dudes with my life. We did a lot together. We sold and used drugs, shot guns at rival gangs, went on trips to New York and Atlantic City just to blow money and find girls, recorded many rap songs, and often lived in each other’s apartments. We were family.

      We respected and trusted no one more than each other, which is why I was a little surprised to see the kind of respect Jerry and José were getting. We hardly knew these guys. My man D had met them and brought them to our apartment. I didn’t like that because we sold crack out of that apartment and smoked a lot of weed there. Not to mention that undercover police were always on the prowl posing as fellow drug dealers and users. They had locked up many of our friends, and for that reason alone we always played it extra cautious around people we didn’t really know.

      Nonetheless, in walks D with Jerry and José. I quickly began hiding guns, drugs, and other things as they all came in the front door. On the kitchen counter in plain sight was enough illegal paraphernalia to warrant a federal drug raid. I was irritated at D for being so stupid as to bring two dudes we didn’t know to the apartment and not call us ahead of time to make sure we weren’t dirty. If we were, and Jerry and José had been undercover, my not arrested yet streak would be over.

      I hid what I could in the back room and came out to meet Jerry and José. I thought it would be a quick hello/goodbye type of thing, but as time went on, it became clear they weren’t going anywhere. The room was filled with weed smoke as we heard story after story about the Bronx. Jerry and José were real comical dudes, with accents funnier than the stories they were telling. José’s Puerto Rican twist on DC slang kept me laughing even when he wasn’t trying to be funny.

      After a while they began talking about things that

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