I have checked this book out of the library so many times with the intention of reading it but was never able to get around to it. I finally did (I love the summertime). It is not at all what I thought it was going to be. I thought it was going to be all about Lectio Divina, but it was his musings on many things about the written word of God. I thought it was interesting, especially the part about how the Bible was written in the original Hebrew and Greek in the vernacular of the day. It was also about how his translation (which he interchanges with the word "paraphrase") of the Bible called The Message. It came out of his frustrations of having his congregation actually wanting to read the Bible. He started with Galatians. Then he was asked to translate the New Testament. Then the rest of the Bible.
“Christians don't simply learn or study or use Scripture; we assimilate it, take it into our lives in such a way that it gets metabolized into acts of love, cups of cold water, missions into all the world, healing and evangelism and justice in Jesus' name, hands raised in adoration of the Father, feet washed in company with the Son.”
“Language is not primarily informational but revelatory. The Holy Scriptures give witness to a living voice sounding variously as Father, Son and Spirit, addressing us personally and involving us personally as participants. This text is not words to be studies in the quiet preserves of a library, but a voice to be believed and loved and adored in workplace and playground, on the streets and in the kitchen. Receptivity is required.”
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