God Connections

Have you considered how God communicates with us?
How does God reveal Himself to mere mortals like you and me?

The Bible?
Certainly-- it is the Word of God. The written word.
But the Bible has its limits. Not the least of these limits is the fact that most people never read it. And of those of us who do, we find it is not always as simple as some would seem to indicate.
"Search the scriptures, " Jesus told the learnd critics. "In them you think you have eternal life, and they are they that testify of Me!"
The Bible doesn't save anyone; it points to the One who does.

Jesus?
Absolutely! He is the living Word!
In the Bible's pages we begin to see Jesus, and the Holy Spirit brings that picture more and more alive until we realize God is speaking! The Holy Spirit makes it possible for us to begin a personal relationship with God through the living Word, Jesus Christ our Lord. It is the task and privilege and challenge of a lifetime to know the liing Word, and let God communicate with us.
But that is not the end of the story.

How does God communicate with us?

The Church?

The Church! The Church is the incarnated Word. Not the institutions, now. Not the denominations, or the organizations, although they may (or may not) become vehicles by which the communication may take place. But by the church I mean YOU! I mean even ME! Every child of God is a member of the Body of Christ, the one true church. And the commandment is, "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly!" (Colossians 3) We are the incarnate Word!
We- you and I- are the only "Bible" many of the people we meet may ever read. Every one of us came to know God because some meber of the Body of Christ, using the written Word in some way or other, introduced us to the living Word.
Written Word!
LIVING WORD!
The Word in shoe leather . . .in kitchens and calssrooms . . on the job..
THAT is how God communicates with us.