Teaching the Bible Without Flattening It - Grace Campbell

<p>What if a sermon gets the facts right but misses the way God chose to tell the story?</p><p>Mike Neglia talks with Grace Campbell about why biblical genre matters for Bible interpretation and expository preaching. Scripture comes to us as narrative, poetry, wisdom, letters, parables and apocalyptic vision—not as interchangeable containers for three-point outlines. How can preachers attend to both what a passage says and what it does, helping listeners encounter the text rather than reducing it to a set of propositions?</p><p>The conversation moves from the Good Samaritan and Revelation to Ecclesiastes, where Grace shares how a family crisis changed the way she heard the book’s language of joy, grief and life’s fleetingness. For pastors and Bible teachers, this is an invitation to teach Scripture on its own terms.</p><p>About Grace Campbell</p><p>Grace serves alongside her husband Tom at Amazing Grace Community Church in West Cork, Ireland, working with children, teenagers and women. They are parents to Perran and Lily. She spent 12 years with the Irish Bible Institute and continues as adjunct faculty, teaching Bible Interpretation. Grace loves helping people engage with the Bible’s varied literary forms and “taste and see” that the Lord is good.</p><p>Resources Grace mentioned in the conversation</p><p>• Jeffrey D. Arthurs, <em>Preaching with Variety: How to Re-Create the Dynamics of Biblical Genres</em><br><a href="https://www.kregel.com/preaching/preaching-with-variety/"><u>https://www.kregel.com/preaching/preaching-with-variety/</u></a></p><p>• Gordon D. Fee and Douglas Stuart, <em>How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth</em><br><a href="https://zondervanacademic.com/products/how-to-read-the-bible-for-all-its-worth-4th"><u>https://zondervanacademic.com/products/how-to-read-the-bible-for-all-its-worth-4th</u></a></p><p>• William W. Klein, Craig L. Blomberg and Robert L. Hubbard Jr., <em>Introduction to Biblical Interpretation</em><br><a href="https://zondervanacademic.com/products/introduction-to-biblical-interpretation"><u>https://zondervanacademic.com/products/introduction-to-biblical-interpretation</u></a></p><p>• Leland Ryken and Tremper Longman III, eds., <em>The Complete Literary Guide to the Bible</em><br><a href="https://www.christianbook.com/the-complete-literary-guide-the-bible/leland-ryken/9780310230786/pd/230786"><u>https://www.christianbook.com/the-complete-literary-guide-the-bible/leland-ryken/9780310230786/pd/230786</u></a></p><p>• J. K