Equip the Church to Think Biblically: How Your Church Can Fuel This Work
Episode Summary
In this special message to church leaders, Dr. Dru Johnson speaks directly to pastors, elders, and ministry teams preparing next year’s budget. As someone who has served as a full-time pastor, he knows how critical and crowded those budget conversations can be—and he makes a case for why the Center for Hebraic Thought deserves a place in your missions giving line.
“If you’ve passed along our articles, if you’ve listened regularly to our podcast or shared it with others,” Dru says, “then you’ve already seen the value.” The Center doesn’t just produce The Biblical Mind podcast—it also creates Biblical Thinks workshops, a scholar-guided book series for lay readers, and the Hebraic Thought Community for shared reading, discussion, and formation.
These resources are built to equip the Church to think along the grain of Scripture and extend its wisdom into everyday life. But that mission depends on ministry partners who believe in the vision—and are willing to give.
Whether it’s $100/month or more, churches can help sustain this growing movement by adding the Center for Hebraic Thought to their missions budget. As Dru says, “Whatever you can do will help, and we thank you very much for partnering with us”
Follow This Link to Become A Church Partner:
https://hebraicthought.org/church-partners/
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Dru Johnson (00:03)
Hey there, pastors, priests, elders, deacons. I was once a full-time pastor as well, and I know this time of the year that we’re sitting around making the budget for next year. And in that budget, we have a missions giving. We, as the Center for Hebraic Thought, who produces the biblical mind, content, and material, we would like you to consider making us a part of that mission line. Giving maybe $100 a month, or as my executive director would like me to say, or more.
⁓ to the center. If you’ve passed along our articles, if you’ve listened regularly to our podcast or shared our podcast with others, as I know some people in my own church have done, even as I found out recently, ⁓ we are the organization that wants to help you and resource you, but we also need your help. As you know, these things cost money. We create the biblical thinks workshops that is meant to equip congregations for thinking and extending the thinking of scripture.
⁓ out into our circumstances today. We have an upcoming book series where we are having academics translate their super nerdy work into short accessible books for people in the pews. We are connecting with pastors who want the best resources for their congregations. Again, thinking along the grain of scripture and how it thinks about the world and having that thinking shape our thinking and our actions in the world.
We even created a Hebraic Thought Community on Facebook where we model some of these practices. We have a weekly communal listening to scripture together where we listen and then we reflect on what we heard. We’ve even had a book club start spontaneously out of that group. We want ⁓ you to benefit from what we are doing, but we also need your help as well. So ⁓ feel free to think about adding us to that missions giving line in your budget.
Whatever you can do will help and we thank you very much for, as they say, partnering with us.
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