Pentecostals have long cherished the Bible and viewed it as the supreme message of God to believers. As such, it has been identified as the source for Christian living and truth and as the major resource for preaching and teaching. Against a backdrop of the fact that the Bible is read considerably less by Pentecostals now than it was just a few decades ago, it is appropriate to revisit some of the reasons why Pentecostals have regarded the Bible so highly. Pentecostals share with other Evangelical believers foundational beliefs concerning the inspired nature of the Bible and its trustworthiness for Christian behaviour. However, Pentecostals affirm other truths as well concerning the application of Biblical truth to their lives. These emphases provide extra contributions to the wider Christian Church to facilitate a greater appreciation of the value of the Bible and its application to the lives of believers today and to those who are privileged to teach and preach from it. As a further result of Pentecostals exploring such foundational truths, it is to be hoped that the trend in Bible reading will be halted and reversed. Otherwise, there is a grievous danger that God will be more silent than he ought to be because of an increasing absence of the Bible being read in churches and by individual believers.
Pentecostals have long cherished the Bible and viewed it as the supreme message of God to believers. As such, it has been identified as the source for Christian living and truth and as the major resource for preaching and teaching. Against a backdrop of the fact that the Bible is read considerably less by Pentecostals now than it was just a few decades ago, it is appropriate to revisit some of the reasons why Pentecostals have regarded the Bible so highly. Pentecostals share with other Evangelical believers foundational beliefs concerning the inspired nature of the Bible and its trustworthiness for Christian behaviour. However, Pentecostals affirm other truths as well concerning the application of Biblical truth to their lives. These emphases provide extra contributions to the wider Christian Church to facilitate a greater appreciation of the value of the Bible and its application to the lives of believers today and to those who are privileged to teach and preach from it. As a further result of Pentecostals exploring such foundational truths, it is to be hoped that the trend in Bible reading will be halted and reversed. Otherwise, there is a grievous danger that God will be more silent than he ought to be because of an increasing absence of the Bible being read in churches and by individual believers.
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