"How Rightly Approaching the Bible Shapes the Entire Christian Life."

The IMonk has recycled an old post from 2005 (an oldie but goodie) on reading and preaching the Bible as a book- and how this avoids "proof texting" passages out of context.

internetmonk.com » Blog Archive » Magic Books, Grocery Lists and Silent Messiahs: How rightly approaching the Bible shapes the entire Christian Life.

My passion is especially piqued when I hear the Bible used by contemporary preachers. In their confidence that the Bible is God’s inspired Word, many have yielded to ways of using the Bible that are deficient, even destructive of the Bible’s true message, power and glory. I want to suggest how we might approach the Bible in a sensible and rational manner that allows the book to speak its truth most clearly and deeply into our lives.