Biblical ethics
Bible parenting
Biblical ethics
Biblical parenting
Biblical justice
Biblical hospitality
Biblical church government
Biblical worship
Biblical fiances
Biblical dating

Whose…?

Reformed Presbyterians?
Anabaptists?
Methodist?
Evangelicals?
Assembly of God?

Each opening the same book.
Each certain. The Bible alone.
But has anyone ever come to the Bible alone?

Is there a page untouched by tradition,
uncolored by experience,
unshaped by reason?

Biblical marriage?
Show me the wedding where two lovers
choose one another.
Chapter? 
Verse?

I thought I carried only a Bible.
I did not notice Westminster in my backpack.
Calvin whispering over my shoulder.

Why?

I called the water 
“biblical,”
Forgetting I had never left 
the river.

Then I watched Jesus open the scroll, 
He left 
One sentence
Unread.
He found himself in Israel’s story.
Out of Egypt…
Hosea looked back.
Matthew looked ahead.

I still want to be biblical.
So I keep following the One
Who keeps opening the Scriptures 
So I notice
my river 
is never meant to be the sea. 

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