Jerry Wragg - Pastor at Grace Immanuel Bible Church in Jupiter, Florida
00:00:00.000 | All right, I'm here at SHEPCON 2024. Can you introduce yourself?
00:00:05.360 | Hi, my name is Jerry Regg, and I am a pastor at Grace Emanuel Bible Church in
00:00:11.120 | Jupiter, Florida, and the president of the Expositor Seminary, and I'm here with
00:00:15.440 | Gary Kim, one of my dear friends. And Jerry, you also served here at Grace
00:00:19.280 | Church, right? I did. I was on staff here for 10 years some time ago, and then in
00:00:25.040 | 2001 went out to Florida. And Jerry, you've been reading the LSB for a bit.
00:00:30.560 | What do you think? No, I love it. First of all, I want to say that with regard to
00:00:37.000 | trusting translations, I don't think I've had a greater level of confidence than I
00:00:42.840 | do now in a translation, because I know that the LSB grew out of the heart of
00:00:51.320 | expositors, particularly Dr. MacArthur, over years and years of study. Now, I'm an
00:00:57.760 | expositor, and I'm a pastor, so I see translations. I see them come and go. I
00:01:02.360 | study when I study for sermons. I'm looking through all of the translations,
00:01:08.200 | but I know a translation that was made because the heart and soul of an
00:01:15.000 | expositor and his team wanted it to be accurate. Well, I can open that thing, and
00:01:21.000 | the clarity from the translation and the confidence with that clarity that goes
00:01:27.120 | with it, that is a thrill to an expositor. And so I love it already just because of
00:01:32.440 | where it came from and its roots. But then as I work through the text, it's so
00:01:39.440 | obvious that in those previously ambiguous places, or places where other
00:01:46.240 | translations tried to get fancy and clever, the LSB is just right at it,
00:01:52.360 | straightforward, and I love that. Thanks, Jerry. Thanks for taking the time.