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The Bible in Pastoral Practice: Themes and Challenges

Summary Like any conference focused on a critically important issue, ‘The Bible as Pastor’ offered a rich, diverse and exceptionally stimulating feast of ideas. What follows is an attempt to construct a concise summary of what seem to have been the conference's fundamental and pervasive themes, insights and questions. Together they form a series of challenges posed to all those who use the Bible pastorally.