Reading the biblical story is not enough. To be fully nourished by Scripture, one must enter into it and participate in God’s story. We must become the word, by living the Word. The Scripture as God’s Word tells us how we are to live in the pattern of death and resurrection, but Jesus, who is the living Word of God, has embodied true humanity and shows us how we are to live, following the Word and doing as Jesus did for others. — Robert Webber, The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2006), 234.