”What Is the Bible?” - August 14, 2022

Rev. Molly Shoulta Tucker, Preaching

On Sunday, August 14, we kickstarted a new series coinciding with the beginning of school called, “Crash Course” that will coincide with our Wednesday night Book Study on Rob Bell’s “What Is the Bible?” Maybe the Bible has been a mystery to you. Maybe you feel like you don’t know enough about it to really understand it. Maybe you’ve never read it. Maybe you’ve had the Bible used against you because of your gender, your sexuality, or your race or ethnicity. First, as a Pastor, and someone who really didn’t come to love scripture until I was in seminary, I’m sorry if it’s ever been used to express anything else than how much God loves you. In our children’s moment on August 14, we talked about how there are 66 books in the Bible, many chapters within those, and verses within all of those but there is one main thing it teaches us, and it was a song we’ve known our whole lives, “Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so.” Here’s Crash Course #1, “What the Bible is not, What the Bible is, and what I hope the Bible will be for you.”