‘Christians feed on Scripture. Holy Scripture nurtures the holy community as food nurtures the human body. 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 to the Father, feet washed in company with the Son’.

Eugene Peterson, Eat This Book, p. 18.

‘…what Scripture can say is determined by the character of the churchly life within which it is read’. Robert Jenson, ‘Hermeneutics and the Life of the Church’, Reclaiming the Bible for the Church, p. 93.