Sunday 19th February 2023 | We begin a new three-part series on the Bible entitled: Word. Story. Spirit. Reading the Bible as a follower of Jesus.

Over the next few weeks we will explore the Bible as Word—The Word of God—and in what sense the Bible is authoritative for us still today and what it means for us to sit under it. We will explore the Bible as Story: as a library of writings, of all shapes and sizes and genres, that together tells a single, unified story that leads us to Jesus, and a story that puts into question all the others stories our culture is telling. And we will explore the Bible as Spirit: the Bible as the place where the Spirit wants to encounter us and to speak to us today and every day in a way that shapes us and transforms us and leads us towards loving God and loving our neighbour.

This week Jamie explores Jesus' own approach to the Scriptures (Matthew 5:17-21), unpacks some helpful theology for us to understand what exactly the Bible is and the way it can be said to be the Word of God. We think together about the ways in our culture we sometimes approach the Bible unhealthily and look at what Jesus himself says to the Sadduccees and Pharisees who each fall into similar patterns in their own day (Mark 12: 18-27 and John 5:41-46), ending with a time of response and conviction before taking the Lord's Supper together.