THE POWER OF THE SPOKEN WORD
Jay Adams was speaking in Brazil to missionaries. One of the missionaries wanted to help Jay see the impact of illiteracy since Brazil has a high illiteracy rate. He asked Adams, “Suppose you have a secretary and you are going out of town for a few days. If you tell her to do so-and-so on Thursday, then before leaving you change your mind and write her a note telling her to do it on Wednesday, when will she do it?” Adams answered, “On Wednesday, of course. Then she can have my note and say, ‘See, this is what you wrote.'” “Exactly,” replied the missionary, “in America. But not in Brazil. Here she would do it on Thursday. She would reason, ‘I heard him say Thursday with his own mouth, so he must have made a mistake when he wrote Wednesday.'” Adams uses this to explain why Paul wrote in II Timothy 3:16 that Scripture is inspired, literally “God-breathed…
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