It is all too common for Christians to attempt to do justice to the scriptural narrative by listening to it, learning from it, and attempting to extract a way of viewing the world from it. But the narrative itself is asking us to approach it in a much more radical way. It is inviting us to wrestle with it, disagree with it, contend with it, and contest it-not as an end in itself, but as a means of approaching its life-transforming truth, a truth that dwells within and yet beyond the words.

Pete Rollins

Bottom line: I think we need to be engaging with Scripture.

I think often we lose sight of the wood from the trees on this one, and become dogmatic about HOW people SHOULD engage with the Bible. I think there are huge number of different ways that we can do this, and each person, and probably each generation need to find fresh ways of doing this that brings them life.

I will write some of my thoughts in a few days, but in the meantime I would be really interested to hear your experience:

What do you do to engage with the Bible? Use notes, read, sermons, study, lectio divina, meditate, Bible in a year, random pickings, listen …

Which of these have brought about the most personal change and transformation in your life?

It would really help my thinking in this to hear your experience, so please don’t just lurk, but add some of your thoughts. Go on…

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