Queen's Road Cell

Edmund Chan says that we are becoming a Biblically illiterate society where even churchgoers only have a superficial knowledge of the Word. We get our Bible knowledge second-hand rather than from personal study. The Word is "incidental, not fundamental". So our Bible studies are dominated by superficial opinions instead of Christ-centred depth. He says there are 4 things that will help us engage with Scripture: 1. A desire to encounter God, not just to learn about Him 2. A disciplined approach to Bible study - training whether we feel like it or not. 3. Learning to delight in the Word because it changes us. 4. Being devoted to the Word as a response to God's love. We commit time and effort and seek to obey it with all we have. Why is it important to experience all these things? My answer is that we engage with the Word of God in basically the same way as engaging with God himself. We do not approach Him in a single way, and so we can only approach His Word rightly b...