Nov 17, 2014: Let the Bible Read You

Robert E. Webber

To read the Bible Christologically is to let it read us and the world. . . . Is it possible to pick up the Bible and say, “I’m going to read about myself and my world”? Is it possible to say, “I identify with this person; my world is like this”? . . . Can we hear God’s voice speak to us out of biblical circumstances? Can the Bible be read as our own story from Genesis to Revelation? . . . When we read and preach the Bible as a history present, we get inside of it, and it reads us and our world.


-Robert E. Webber, Ancient-Future Worship: Proclaiming and Enacting God’s Narrative (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2008), 130.

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Alumni Director, Practicum Professor, and DWS graduate.

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