People often wonder why Christians have an obsession with the bible. They can see why being a church together is important—for fellowship etc—and they can see why we might conduct certain rituals as part of worship or perhaps to appease our deity. So why the obsession with words written in a book? We will return to the book in a moment, but let us firstly look at how we speak and act in the world. Everyone leads a scripted life. Our cultures offer us scripts—ways to speak and act in the world—and even when we don't notice them consciously, we act upon them. As Christians we dedicate ourselves to the script ure and thus are given a different script. Our life of faith is, in a sense, a gradual learning and conforming to the script of the bible. It offers us ways to speak—truthfully, lovingly, morally and gospelly—and ways to act—against sin and for God.