Well School’s out for the holidays, and the last 4 weeks have seen the Bible unpacked as a Narrative that we are invited to find ourselves in.
Eugene Petersen said, We are part of a holy community that for three thousand years and more has been formed inside and out by these words of God,words that have been heard, tasted, chewed, seen and walked. Reading Holy Scripture is totally physical…one of the early rabbis insisted that the primary body part for taking in the word of God is not the ears but the feet. “You learn God”, he said, “not through your ears but through your feet: follow the Rabbi”
Our engagement with the Bible is not limited to our ability to ‘read and understand’ but requires the whole of our sensory being.
It can be read as a History book, full of interesting facts and information, and it can be read as a Story for Formation, one that not only speaks ‘to us’ but also speaks ‘for us’.
In the words of a famous Church Father, ‘We start (read) with our Mind, and our mind descends to our Heart’
Don’t just Read the Bible, Eat it! (Revelation 10 v 9-10)