Sola Scriptura.

Doctrinally, it means that the Bible is the infallible and innerant word of God–truthful and authoritative in all it affirms.  Sure we can read other books but there never has been nor will there be a book like it.  It takes primacy over tradition, culture, dreams visions…everything.

Yet, for me, sola scriptura is more than a doctrine…

I decided to follow Jesus when I was nine years old.  Soon after my baptism I asked my Grandmother for a Bible.  I devoured it.  I couldn’t stop reading it.  I would fall asleep with my face resting in it.  For a little boy who who had no daddy; I discovered the voice of my heavenly Father in the scriptures.  It was compelling.

What about you?  What keeps you coming back to the scriptures?