What is distinctive about the Gilead Programme?
Most people’s knowledge (if any!) of the Bible is “bitsy”. The preacher in church may speak on a Psalm one week, from a letter of Paul’s the next week, then on one of Christ’s parables – and so it goes on. At home, one may read a bit of Joshua, some well-worn favourite passages, something here, something there…After some years of this approach the mind is a vast dump of bits and pieces of Bible knowledge, with little thought of any one piece relating to any other. Imagine someone reading a textbook or a long novel by dipping into Ch.8, then reading a bit of Ch.5, then jumping ahead to Ch.42, then back to Ch.18. He throws it aside, saying “I can’t understand this book. It doesn’t make sense”. That’s why many Christians can make neither head nor tail of the Bible. Pieces of a jigsaw puzzle still sitting in the box mean very little. Only when they are put together does the picture emerge. Without seeing clearly how the various parts of the Bible interlock, we cannot fully appreciate God
