“In 1978 a Gutenberg Bible was sold at auction in New York for $2 million – the highest price ever paid for a printed book.” So says The Timetables of History – a Horizontal Linkage of People and Events book.

I went to a Wycliffe Bible Translators fundraiser banquet in my city a couple years ago. What a privilege to hear the testimonies of people that are so eager to get the Word of God to every nation, every tribe, every people. People that don’t even have a single copy of the Bible in their own language. Wycliffe wants to remedy that.

How many Bibles do you possess?

I have a lot of questions rolling around in my head. Why do you suppose that anyone would pay $2 million for the Gutenberg Bible? To read and study it? Or just to “possess” it? I wonder if the new owner is a Christian? Was it an emotional draw to the original Gutenberg version of the Bible? Or was it an emotional draw to the Author of the Bible?

Now, ask yourself: Of what value is the Bible to you, personally?

Would you pay $2 million for a Bible? For any book?

Why do you own your Bible?

To possess it, or to get to know the God of the Bible ?  Are the pages dog-eared from extreme use? Or just gathering dust somewhere?

The Word of God – living and active and more powerful than a doubled-edged sword. Rightly dividing the truth and error.  In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.

Of what value?

$2 million? NOT ENOUGH! Priceless!

Let’s talk about it!