So the other day my wife and I got into a discussion about some classic rock song lyrics.
In particular, the Queen song, "Killer Queen".
Finally we brought up some YouTube links that showed the lyrics and I was amazed to find out how many of them I had totally wrong.
She, however, knew them all accurately.
The difference between the two of us was not how well we knew the songs, but how we learned the lyrics.
My wife learned them by going to the source, seeing what they were. I went strictly by what I heard, never checking the accuracy.
The result... I have gone for years singing along... with the wrong lyrics!
I thought about how many people approach the Bible the same way. We hear a sermon, or a Christian song and build a belief around what we heard, never stopping to check the source.
However, even Paul had a group of believers who double-checked him, they were commended for it.
"Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true." - Acts 17:11 (NIV)
We can go on singing wrong song lyrics and it won't matter much. However, if we are basing what we believe is true only on hearsay, we can easily fall into error.
Be a Berean!
