1 - The Role Of Scripture In Our Lives - Nick Mercer

Short https://youtu.be/8bZfRSmMEkU of Luigi Gioia interviewing Nick Mercer

Full video recording of the conversation between Luigi Gioia and Nick Mercer on April 14 2021

FIVE QUESTIONS

1. Does God talk through Scripture? How?

2. I feel that I do not need to go to Church.The only thing that matters in Christian life is reading Scripture by myself.

3. I only listen to Scripture in Church. Should I feel guilty about it?

4. How does Scripture tell me what to do in my life, especially when I have a difficult decision to make?

5. I have never engaged with Scripture. What is the best way to start?

PREPARATORY READINGS

1. Dedication to the first edition of the King James Version of the Bible: “The Translators to the Reader.”

2. N. T. Wright, “On The Authority Of Biblical Narratives”

3. Enzo Bianchi, “Is a spiritual approach to the Bible relevant today?”

FURTHER READINGS

Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again, Thomas Nelson 2018

One of the most enjoyable, informed and accessible books on Scripture I have ever read. It succeed in locating the divinity of the Bible in its inconsistencies, flaws, variety - that is in its humanity. One gem among countless others:

“For those who count the Bible as sacred, interpretation is not a matter of whether to pick and choose, but how to pick and choose” (Rachel Held Evans).