Tells a story in breath, rhythm, song
What’s the Bible for? We asked dozens of writers to respond to this question in seven words or less, as well as to expand on their response in a few sentences. To see all of the responses together as they are posted, bookmark this page.
Tells a story in breath, rhythm, song
When I sing a song—even one that’s strange, that is only scraps of a rhythm and a few lyrics—the song makes me breathe with it. I don’t read as much as I listen with it and soften my body to it. Maybe this is what the Bible is, song after song after song, not asking us to know it as much as to sing with it, finding those rhythms of God’s life with us, for us, in us.
