We may take the task of reading the Scriptures and attending to the reading of Scriptures in worship lightly, failing to discern what God is up to with us in that effort.

A faithful, that is, a full-of-faith rendering of the Scriptural word in terms of both denotation and connotation demands more of us than a casual glance through the text before we skip up to lectern or pulpit.

It demands prayerful, cerebral, imaginative preparation.