Chapters 1 & 2

[Matt Rundio]

These questions are great for personal reflection. For our discussion here, online, you may want to share some (or all) of your answers or simply focus on asking questions of or making comments about the reading regarding: What did you really like? What bothered you? What quotes did you find especially important? What changed your thinking, or challenged you, or made you uncomfortable?

Now, here are several specific questions about these chapters that will help you digest the book:

Chap 1:  The book and I 

1.        Why did Scot tell us his personal story with the Bible?

2.         Do you have a personal story with the Bible?

3.         What was the big question that Scot discovered?

4.         Do you agree that we all "pick and choose"/ adopt and adapt the Bible to our culture?

5.         What did Scot learn about how we pick and choose?

6.         Why do we need to know the logic behind our picking and choosing?


Chap 2:  The Birds and I

1.     What's a blue parakeet represent to Scot?

2.    What is reading to retrieve?
a.   What are the two kinds
b.   What are the problems with this approach?

3.    What is reading through tradition?
a.     What is the "great tradition?"
b.     What is the problem with this approach?

4.    What is reading with tradition?
a.     Why does Scot call it the third way?
b.     How do we do it?
c.     What are the dangers?

5.    What was Scot's confession?
How did he find renewal?

6.    What is Scot's motto now?
Can you make it your motto?

7.    Complete these statements for yourself

For me the Bible is:

More intimate than __________________________________________

More unusual than ___________________________________________

Has the glory of ____________________________________________