The Bible Is One Big Story
The Bible is one big Story. The Bible is one big Story of redemption, restoration and renewal through Christ Jesus. Yet regrettably, people don’t always read, hear, share, teach, or engage with the Bible as one big Story. Many people limit the Bible to lessons in good behaviour, an arrangement of doctrines, a sourcebook for […]
Communal Bible Engagement
Most Christians in the Western world engage with the Bible mainly by themselves. We read it privately during a “quiet time,” interpret it alone, and experience it personally in the sanctity of our home. Which is good and fine. Or is it? The biblical view. Private engagement with the Bible isn’t the biblical norm. In […]
The Death of Reading
The death of reading … How the death of reading harms Bible engagement. I recently read Philip Yancey’s article in The Washington Post titled “The Death of Reading is Threatening the Soul.” While Yancey’s article isn’t specifically focused on reading the Bible, it got me thinking about how the death of reading harms Bible engagement. […]
Reading the Bible
Reading the Scriptures. “Focus on reading the Scriptures …” 1 Timothy 4:13. Reading the Bible should be for the Christian what eating and drinking is for the common man. So, what’s involved with reading the Bible? Is it snacking on a verse daily, digesting a book in one sitting, or something else? While a verse […]
Saving the Bible From Ourselves
In the book Saving the Bible from Ourselves, the author, Glenn R. Paauw, observes how the Bible has “fallen” and needs to be “saved”. To this end, he constructs a model for discovering (or rediscovering) Bible engagement in the context of the Christian community. In so doing, he argues for a new form of Bible […]