The Bible Recap
Prep Episode 3: Why Reading the Whole Bible is Important (Interview with Lee McDerment)
Wed, 18 Dec 2024
SHOW NOTES: - Head to our Start Page for all you need to begin! - Join the RECAPtains - Check out the TBR Store - Show credits FROM TODAY’S RECAP: - Lee’s album: The Hour PREP EPISODES (in case you haven’t listened yet): 1. Let's Read the Bible in a Year (Chronological Plan)! 2. How I Learned to Love (Reading) the Bible 3. Why Reading the Whole Bible is Important (interview with Lee McDerment) 4. Preparing to Read the Bible 5. Avoiding Common Mistakes: What to Look for When You Read the Bible 6. Reading the Bible in Community BIBLE READING & LISTENING: Follow along on the Bible App, or to listen to the Bible, try Dwell! SOCIALS: The Bible Recap: Instagram | Facebook | TikTok D-Group: Instagram | Facebook TLC: Instagram | Facebook D-GROUP: D-Group is brought to you by the same team that brings you The Bible Recap. TBR is where we read the Bible, and D-Group is where we study the Bible. D-Group is an international network of Bible study groups that meet weekly in homes, churches, and online. Find or start one near you today! DISCLAIMER: The Bible Recap, Tara-Leigh Cobble, and affiliates are not a church, pastor, spiritual authority, or counseling service. Listeners and viewers consume this content on a voluntary basis and assume all responsibility for the resulting consequences and impact. Links to specific resources and content: This is not an endorsement of the entire website, author, organization, etc.. Their views may not represent our own.
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Hey Bible Readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. Today we're going to be talking to Lee McDermott, pastor of New Spring Church in Greenville, South Carolina. If you listened to Prep Episode 2, you heard the story of how Lee challenged me to read the Bible all the way through and how it changed my life.
At the time, I'd been in full-time ministry for a few years as a musician and a writer and a speaker, and Lee had mentioned that I should say very little on stage until I'd read the whole Bible. I was deeply convicted by the challenge to fill my head and my heart with all of God's words before attempting to say much about it on stage.
I still count that conversation as one of the most important ones of my life. If it weren't for him, I never would have launched DGroup, the discipleship and Bible study ministry I lead, which has now touched every populated continent and is even in Spanish. And I definitely wouldn't have started the Bible Recap because I never would have fallen in love with God and His Word.
So of course, I'm incredibly excited for you to hear from Lee and catch his passion for the Word of God because it's definitely contagious. We did this interview over the phone, so it's not the best quality, but I promise you what it lacks in audio quality, it more than makes up for in wisdom quality and quantity. So let's jump into the interview now. Lee McDermott, welcome to the Bible Recap.
We are so excited to have you. Why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself?
Well, first of all, what an honor. And Tara Lee, I'm just so grateful for you. You and I have been friends for so long. I think, you know, just, you know, to introduce myself to your listeners, I've been on staff at New Spring Church for a little over 18 years. And I was for 15 years, I was the worship pastor.
And then a brief stint as our creative arts director, which is over, you know, worship and production, all the rest of that stuff. And most recently, I've been the Greenville campus pastor for New Spring Church for a little over a year now in my beloved city of Greenville. I've been married to my wife, Allie, for a little over seven years. And we have two kids.
Gray, our son, who's three, and Lucy, who is our daughter, who's a little over one. And they are awesome. So, you know, it's an honor to jump on this thing to talk about my favorite book in the whole wide world with you. I know that's how you feel about it, too. And just honored to get to share with you today.
Well, we're glad to have you. So why don't you tell us, when did you first read the Bible and what prompted you to read through it for the first time?
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