by Patrick Hurley

Created on: September 16, 2010

Imagine you are fourteen years old. Someone hands you a Motor Vehicle manual to read. You scan through it for a few seconds and give it back to them. B-O-R-I-N-G. Why? You have no NEED for it in your life.

Two years later, you are preparing to take your driver's test. You cannot get your license unless you know the rules of driving. Your comment is classic, "WHERE is that Motor Vehicle manual!" Now...you have a need to learn it.

Without our need for God, the Bible is a book. It is a tome filled with history, geography, philosophy, character development, wisdom, poetry, songs, theology and most of all, an explanation that will define eternal life and how to get there.

If you take one to a video game arcade or to a friend's party, it would not grab your attention.

If you were alone on a deserted island or on your deathbed, you might find it highly provocative at that point in your life.

Moreover, if you are a new convert to Christianity and you are ecstatic about your faith, you will be hungry to understand your life that has passed from death from sin to life in Jesus.

When I was growing up, we had a Catholic Bible on the stand beneath our television set. I never opened it. When I gave my life to Christ, I bought a Bible and began going to a community study every Wednesday night. I listened to the teacher and sat there dumbfounded. I had no clue how he extracted such wisdom and understanding from an unending entanglement of convoluted verses that made absolutely no sense to me.

It was written in such a code that would have made da Vinci blush. I thought to myself, "I will NEVER understand the Bible. It is impossible."

Now, I teach the Bible to churches. I am considered an expert in communicating its truth to the average person.

What made the difference for me?

How could a boring, seemingly senseless, overly wordy set of imagined gibberish suddenly become my LIFE?

Let me give you the simple answer: Need.

The Bible is not boring, it is a treasure chest at the bottom of the ocean. You have to want it bad enough to dive in to the water and find out. If not, it will be just another book to you. For most people, that is all it is, another book. Another boring book.

But, to the Christian or the seeker of God and truth, it is the oasis of living water to the struggling man dehydrated from the sun and thirsty to the point of death.

The Gospels reveal Jesus Christ in all his glory bringing the living God to earth. The Book of Acts is

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