Re-Enchanting Bible Reading

This week in our Re-Enchanting Christianity series, we’ll re-learn how to approach the Bible not as mere literature or a religious rulebook, but as God’s living voice. From 1 Thessalonians 2:13, we’ll see that Scripture isn’t just something we study—it’s something that works on us, searches us, and reshapes us. Come ready to press your ear against the hive of God's Word.

Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 2.1-13

(Additional Reading: Isaiah 40.3-8; 1 Samuel 3.21; Hebrews 4.12-13; 1 Peter 1.22 – 2.3)

Warm-Up:

When was the last time the Bible felt less like “information” and more like God actually addressing you—and what do you think made the difference?

“I have thought I am a creature of a day, passing through life as an arrow through the air. I am a spirit come from God and returning to God; just hovering over the great gulf, till a few moments hence I am no more seen. I drop into an unchangeable eternity! I want to know one thing, the way to heaven—how to land safe on that happy shore. God himself has condescended to teach the way: for this very end he came from heaven. He hath written it down in a book. O give me that book! At any price give me the Book of God! I have it. Here is knowledge enough for me. Let me be homo unius libri.”

- John Wesley -