Our "Upside-Down" Pulpit Bible

A few years ago, our former pastor was indulging a favorite hobby--browsing through a local Christian bookstore--when he noticed a beautiful, oversized pulpit Bible that had been marked down to an unbelievably low price. Curious, he picked the bible up and began to examine it.

Its exterior was flawless, full-grain leather with beautiful gold embossing. The interior pages, gilt with golden edges, were expertly printed in large, easy-to-read Garamond type on fine quality acid-free paper. There was even a pair of crimson satin ribbon page markers neatly stitched into the binding for marking favorite Old and New Testament scriptures.

It was, it seemed, a perfect Bible and as he returned it to the shelf he couldn't imagine why it had been marked down to a fraction of its normal price. Indeed, it was such a good deal, he couldn't resist picking it back up again, flipping it over as he did so because he'd inadvertently returned it to the shelf upside-down.

And that's when he realized why it was priced so low.

He hadn't returned it to the shelf upside-down, after all. Instead, he discovered the contents of the Bible, Genesis through Revelation, had mistakenly been bound into the cover upside-down.

Then, rather than returning the Bible to the shelf as every previous shopper had done, he bought it for the church and presented it to the congregation the following Sunday morning with a simple sermon message: The seemingly ordinary Bible is a reminder that just as it had been turned upside-down, Jesus Christ...at first a seemingly ordinary Man...had forever turned the world upside-down with his new gospel of love and salvation.

If you've not yet experienced His love and salvation, we invite you to join us any Sunday. Take a look at our very special Bible...and celebrate, with us, how Christ turned the world upside-down.