How Inspired Scripture Gives Us Jesus: The Inspired Readers

What does it mean to say that Scripture is 'inspired'? We see that Scripture is what it is because God is who He is. In Scripture, God Himself speaks and offers us His Son and all that He has won for us. By hearing Scripture with faith, we do more than learn about Jesus: we enter into a relationship with Him.

This is part five in a five-part Master Class series on 'Word of Life: How Inspired Scripture Gives Us Jesus'.

5. The Inspired Readers
We have seen that the same Spirit who inspired the Bible is also at work in us as we receive the Bible. Christ helps us as we hear and read, by His Spirit. The good news is that Christ helps us, by His same Spirit and also through His body. As individuals, we are not the only Christians whom the Spirit helps to hear and read the Bible: we are surrounded by others, who are Jesus’ gift to the Church, as we all build each other up. God uses ‘people, not only in the narrow sense of prophets and apostles, pastors and teachers, but also including parents and relatives, schoolteachers and friends generally’. - Herman Bavinck