Diocesan News
’Grasp a hold of that Big Picture!’
The Diocese of Down and Dromore has come to the end of four nights of superb and stretching Bible teaching from Dr Iain Provan, Marshall Sheppard Professor of Biblical Studies at Regent College, Vancouver.
Bishop Harold thanked Iain for his challenging talks which prompted many of us to critically re–examine some of the assumptions we hold about Scripture.
Taking as his theme “The Big Picture: Reading the Bible for All That’s There”, Iain shared, as promised, one of his passions – “to get all of God’s people reading all of God’s Word and understanding it as one Great Story in which we are supposed to live our lives.”
His final exhortation to us was: “Grasp a hold of that Big Picture!! Read your Scriptures within its frame!! For if it is really true that I can only answer the question “What am I to do?” if I can answer the prior question “Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?” – well then, here in Holy Scripture is the Story of all stories. Read yourself into it!! And then you will know who you are, and you will know what you are here to do.”
We were also delighted to have the Kerygma Good News Choir with us, led by Musical Director, Lorna Palmer. Saturday 19 November is a date for your diary when the cross–community choir will have another Celebration Praise Concert in Newry Cathedral.
It was also the night to announce next year’s Bible Week speaker as Bishop Greg Venables. Bishop Greg is much in demand as a Bible teacher and is a leading theological conservative in global Anglicanism. He and his wife Sylvia have been missionaries in South America for almost 40 years and he has been bishop of Southern Argentina since 2002. Read more here
View some Bible Week photos in our galleries
For further information please contact:
Diocesan Communications Officer, Down & Dromore
07840 006899
Mrs Annette McGrath
[email protected]