Reading and Being Read/Feeding and Being Fed

In the life of the church, the Bible has a particular place.  Allen Verhey and Joseph Harvard write about scripture as both "scripted" and "script." [Ephesians, in the Belief series, a Theological Commentary on the Bible, WJK, 2011] The Bible is part of feedback loop in the life of the church. (read about another church feedback loop in my comments at PastorBethatCovenant.) That is, the Bible is written, a text object to be studied, a scripted thing.  But it is not just that. The bible is also script, a text to be performed in the life of the church.  We perform the text when we read and listen to it in worship, when we live lives in obedient service to its demands. Performing the text in worship and prayer and service, the text becomes a mechanism for re-forming our lives, which we then re-perform in God's grace, and are by God's grace, transformed, both as individuals and as a community. Feedback loop.  Fed people. New people.
That's why I love reading scripture.  I need feeding, real, spiritual food.