The purpose of The Versatility of the Bible: For Study, Teaching, and Preaching is to encourage readers to take the Bible seriously in all their use of it as students, pastors, lay leaders, or as "ordinary" believers. Its purpose is also to encourage us to take seriously the fact that the Bible comes to us in the words of human writers, which means taking into account the historical, cultural, and social contexts in which God spoke through human beings. This book shows how the Bible can be used creatively to transform lives in different sociocultural contexts.
