The Bible: for my friends

I met an interesting guy named Jon Swanson via his blog yesterday through a link shared in Google Reader by Chris Brogan. Jon said…

I asked a bunch of my friends to answer some questions about how they looked at the Bible.

You, in fact.

It wasn’t a Bible knowledge test, the kind that students at a Bible college take. I taught at one years ago, as a communication prof, not a Bible prof. All the students coming in had to take a Bible test, a knowledge test. It determined whether they could skip the Bible survey courses that were part of the requirements. If you knew enough Bible facts, you didn’t have to take a semester of Old Testament survey and a semester of New Testament survey. Which meant that those courses were also about Bible facts.

My questions were about how often people looked at the Bible, what metaphors they had for what the Bible is, what questions they have. And I discovered as I read their responses that these friends, these people who show up regularly to read what I write about at 300wordsaday.com, all look at the Bible differently. Which is to be expected, on one hand. But is challenging for me as I write five days a week about following Jesus.

I mean, when I refer to the Bible as I write, what does that mean to you as you read?

You can read the rest of Jon’s post here… The Bible: for my friends.