Thursday, March 5, 2015

BOB
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Good Morning. This is Bob Peden of Central a United Methodist

Community in Meridian, MS. At Central, we take the Bible very seriously as

God's authoritative instruction for faith and for life. However, we do not

worship the Bible. The living Word of God whom we do worship is Jesus

Christ. E Stanley Jones, the noted Methodist preacher and missionary to

India, had this to say. "It is not said in the Book, ‘The Word became printer's

ink,' but it is said, ‘The Word became flesh.'
Had the Word become printer's ink,
we should have followed a code.
Instead our code is a Character. We follow a living mind instead of a fixed

letter." At Central we worship Jesus Christ who is alive and at work among

us.  When we read the Bible, we do not read it as an end in itself. Rather, we

read the Bible as an open window to the only living Word of God, Jesus

Christ.