Introduction
In January 04 Moot started a once-a-month space to develop a group-hermeneutic exploration of the scriptures. Like many emerging and new forms of church, we are in danger of throwing the baby out with the bath water when it comes to scriptures. Many of us know that we don't believe the simplified black and white literal interpretation of scripture. But we do believe these words are God inspired, but need to be interpreted to draw out meaning for us today living in the 21st Century. So we want to maintain a high regard towards people and culture as well as a high regard towards scripture, where mature Christianity is about living with the tension of holding such a position. In response, we have set up the Moot Scriptural Space that meet monthly to fit with the monthly cycle of worship mission and community that is moot.

Scripture space is not aimed at being a cold intellectual exercise, but a way of deepening our faith and understanding to enrich our spiritual lives and how to approach our world which is increasingly complex and grey. Such an approach will enable Moot as community of faith, to become an ‘interpretative community’ to help us develop a shared understanding and application of scripture.

We have developed a number of ways of engaging with interpreting scripture, sometimes through the arts and film sometimes through a tool to enable group discussion of scripture which we have found to be deeply enriching and engaging. Below are links to this tool and accompanying guidance notes, (these links refer to PDF documents.)