What is the role of the Bible in these shared pilgrimages? Its role is significant, but in a manner that is markedly different from the way it has been used in the past. The emphasis needs to be on the story of the Bible, rather than on the Bible as a book. We must learn to picture the narrative arc of the Bible in a manner that captures the imagination, rather than using the Bible as a source of modernistic proof texts. We must learn to embed our lives within the larger biblical drama.
