The Bible

We went to New Wine, a great big Christian conference/holiday a couple of weeks ago. One of the things about that type of event is that you have the opportunity to get some in depth Bible teaching. Every morning we'd take the kids to their groups and head along to the Big Top for worship and word.

One of the elements of this that made an impact on me was how the guy who taught that week held his Bible as he taught. He'd stand there, holding his Bible like this, like something wonderfully precious, like something he didn't want to let fall, like something he wanted to devour. His posture reminded me of how Tabitha, my nearly 5 year old daughter, looks when she's discovered something wonderful to her that she wants not to lose but to examine and wonder over.

But it wasn't the physical book that was inspiring this reaction, it was the content. Here was someone whose very posture communicated his love for the word of God, someone for whom this book clearly contained honey for his lips. When I started thinking about what I was going to say tonight, I remembered this bloke and thought it would be good to share some of the things about the Bible that stir up those reactions in me, and to make an opportunity for us to discover or rediscover a love for God's words.

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