What the Bible says to everyone over all time

This comment from our morning's email really struck a chord with me:

I think I've put my finger on it. I don't want to go to church to learn about what the Bible "says to me," whether "me" is [just me] or the ... congregation as a whole. I want to go to learn about what the Bible says to everyone over all time. The part that concerns unchaining truth for every one. I do think that both are important, but I get the one in my devoes and talks and interactions with others. I just feel such a lack of authority and conviction in my church that the Bible holds the latter kind of truth.

Grace alone, faith alone, Scripture alone, Christ alone,

To the glory of God alone.

I wish I could send the writer of that email to this church:

I visited Capitol Hill Baptist in January. The church kicked off with Sunday school, which really should have been called Sunday seminary. Class options included a survey of the New Testament, spiritual disciplines, and a systematic theology lesson on theories of the Atonement.

Such rigor can be expected from a church led by Dever, who earned a Ph.D. from Cambridge studying the Puritans. He embodies the pastoral theologians who are leading young people toward Reformed theology. He has cultivated a church community in the Puritan mold—unquestionably demanding and disciplined. And the church attracts a very young crowd. Its 525 members average 29 years old. Dever mockingly rejected my suggestion that they aim to attract an under-30 crowd. "Yes, that's why we sing those hymns and have a [55-minute] sermon." Dever smiled. "We're seriously calibrated for the 18th century."

(See Young, Restless, Reformed)