What does it say to you?

Can you imagine that when the Rabbi was teaching the Law he turned to one of his students and said, "Judah, what does this passage say to you?" And then he turned to another and said the same thing. You know that would never happen in a Jewish classroom but so many evangelicals ignore their teachers and scholars and seek out a personal meaning. There are times when the Scripture may speak directly to us in a way that is non traditional but we cannot take that approach to all Scripture. Scripture isn't fuzzy but very definite. When people choose to use Scripture that way there can be millions of different interpretations. And if we don't like what it says in one version we can always turn to another until we find one that says what we want it to say. Remember the cults use their own Scriptures so that they can have it say what they want it to say.
People attend an evangelical church and say that they have a high view of Scripture but take an experiential interpretation of it instead of a proper scholarly view. Let us first find out what Scripture says before we ask what it says to us. We may find that it does speak to us but not in the way we wanted it to.