Many years ago, a parishioner gave me a book for my birthday called The Maker’s Diet. The author suffered from Crohn’s disease, which is a chronic auto-immune condition that attacks the small and large intestine. After seeing 70 doctors and trying every diet, drug and supplement he could find without success, he decided to see what the Bible said about healthy living; diet and exercise and so on.

There's nothing quite like a gift that at once says, "I really care," and "You're getting fat."

What goes in may not defile, but it sure can hurt. I thought at the time it was a trendy diet, but it turns out that like finances and a lot of other areas, we find the Bible has very practical truth in it.

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We heavily emphasize scripture in our weekly worship, usually two Old Testament readings including the psalm and two New Testament readings including the Gospel. Wise preachers work in and from the text.

The word scripture is drawn from the Latin word scriptura which means simply writings. The Greek word for writings is grajh, from which we get our words graphics, graphite and, well, graph. In other words, these writings are so important that the ancient words for writings refer, just as the ancient Greek word for book, biblos, came to be synonymous with THE Book, or the Bible. 

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I invited Jodie to share her witness to encourage everyone to think and pray about people in our orbit who might – might – be interested in Alpha. I say might because we never know whom the Lord will call into that program. We never know when the right time may be.

She is not alone. She is one of many who have come into the life of faith or have gotten deeper in it through Alpha. Alpha isn’t the only way, of course, but it is the best program we have for people to explore and ask hard questions about faith without fear of judgment or pat answers. And while encouraged to speak, they can also listen to others’ thoughts and experiences.

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