By remaining shallow in the scriptures, Bacote said, too many American Christians have avoided a necessary showdown between their own base cultural proclivities and God’s perfect standard. When Christians are discipled primarily by society, inevitably they look to scripture for affirmation of their habits and behaviors and political views. “But if the Bible is the word of God, then God ought to be interrogating those things. That’s why Jesus came: to fix your vertical relationship with God,” Bacote said. “He wants your whole life. He wants to transform who you are.”
