This week we will be beginning a short preaching series looking at the Bible and how we use (misuse and maybe even abuse) it.

Last Sunday someone came in just as the service was ending and I got chatting to her as I stood at the door.  It turns out she is a Piskie who moved west a year or more ago and has yet to find a church.  She asked about our services and then said 'you do preach the Bible don't you?'  I can guess what she meant but it caused an inner chuckle in the light of current intentions.

For some reason my Baptist Times didn't arrive until Saturday and I was delayed in reading it, but it had an Outside Edge column on.... reading the Bible and the danger of thinking it is all sewn up in one reading.

Hmm...

This week I'm playing around a bit with authority, the Barthian WORD, Word, word scheme, and the ideas that 'the word of God is alive and active' and that it 'became flesh and dwelled among us.'  Whether it will make any sense, whether this person will be at church and what anyone might make of it remains to be seen.

Other themes we will be looking at include handling difficult texts and the dangers of proof-texting & out of context citations.  In between we will have a multi-lingual service for Bible Sunday, supporting Scottish Bible Society.