For All the Noise We Make…

Every new Christian is told how important it is to develop the habit of daily Bible reading, and rightly so. But strangely, this commitment to reading the Bible is not as often extended to the worship services of the local church. Fred Craddock says it well: “For all the noise ministers make about the centrality of the Bible in the church, the public reading of Scripture in many places does not support that conviction.” The public reading of Scripture seems to have been displaced in