J.I. Packer: The ESV Study Bible, A Single-Volume Discipleship Resource
J.I. Packer on the ESV Study Bible:
The reason why I’m so enthusiastic about it is largely that it takes a wider view of its task than other study Bibles do. Other study Bibles provide you with information and that’s it. The ESV Study Bible goes a step further. It’s a study Bible which not only explains the texts and expounds them accurately, but it has in it a whole series of articles for the making and shaping of discipleship to Jesus Christ on the basis of the Bible. It can be, in a very significant sense, a single-volume resource for pastoral ministry, and indeed for personal life, because it’s doing the job which professional catechists have been doing ever since Christianity started—teaching people the truths that Christians live by and teaching them how to live by those truths.
Buy an ESV Study Bible.
I’ve recently been using the ESV Study Bible for my morning reading and find
it’s very helpful the way it’s laid out with the articles, commentaries, and
particularly the overviews such as “God’s Sovereignty in Salvation as Seen in
Acts” on page 2112.
