CAN THE BIBLE ACTUALLY BE AN IDOL?

I love the Bible. I read it. I live it. I preach from it. I know it to be the inspired Word of God. But it is the voice of God and the Spirit’s witness in my life that makes it so. The Bible is not just a written Word but a living Word.

Many more Christians need to read the written Word, but many also need to learn to commune with the living Word. There is a difference.

“who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life“ (2 Cor. 3:6).

“It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life“ (Jn. 6:63).

“All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for…