Pastoral ministry is a calling and a profession with many and varied tasks, requiring faithful and dutiful attention to the Bible, whether in the setting of preaching and worship, church Bible studies, or in the classroom. This text of biblical interpretation and application is crucial to ministries that take seriously the call to be faithful to Christ in the midst of the divisive intellectual and ethical issues of our time.

The Indispensable Guide to God's Word will equip laypersons, college, and beginning theological school students to better understand how worldviews inform theologies of Scripture and how one theology of Scripture in particular may strengthen their interpretations.