For scripture to transform lives, believers must engage scripture effectively, she said. Wilkin recounted examples of believers’ unfamiliarity with scripture and told of a pastor’s wife who once confided in her but misquoted and misunderstood a well-known passage to express dismay over suffering. “Are we interacting with scripture in a way that is compounding our understanding and fueling our sanctification?” Wilkin asked the audience. In Friday’s evening plenary, Jen Wilkin said spending time with scripture should transform believers' lives, but that the biblical illiteracy she encounters within the church shows something is amiss. Leading the Saturday breakout sessions were Kelly King, manager of Lifeway’s magazines and devotional publishing and Women’s Ministry Training Kathy Litton, wife of SBC President Ed Litton Elizabeth Luter, wife of former SBC President Fred Luter, and others. “Our heart is that we would be women who abide in Christ,” Dew said. Tara Dew, wife of NOBTS and Leavell College President Jamie Dew and director of the NOBTS ministry wives certificate program, welcomed the audience of 1200 women. 4-5, to hear Jen Wilkin, popular Bible study author and speaker. Women from 19 states and hundreds of churches came together for Abide 2022, “Women of the Word,” at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and Leavell College, Feb. Research Doctoral Degrees (ThM, PhD, DMA, EdD).Professional Doctoral Degrees (DMin, DEdMin).Undergraduate Degrees (Leavell College).Leadership (Jim Henry Leadership Institute).Ethics & Politics (Institute for Faith and the Public Square).

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