`So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God' (Rom. 10:17).

`As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the Word, that ye may grow thereby'

(1 Pet. 2:2).

`So shall My Word be that goeth forth out of My mouth; it shall not return to Me

void but it shall accomplish that which I please ... ' (Isa. 55:11).

`He that rejecteth Me, and receiveth not My words, hath one that judgeth him; the

word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day' (John 12:48).

`The Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God' (Eph. 6:17).

and note the Lord using this all-conquering weapon in His temptation in the wilderness

and thus overcoming Satan with His three-fold `It is written' (Matt. 4:1-11).

In view of all the foregoing, no wonder almost the last injunction that the apostle Paul

gave was `Preach the Word' (2 Tim. 4:2) for this is the only means through which we

may come to a personal knowledge of the living Word, the Lord Jesus Christ, Whom to

know is life eternal.

Now perhaps we can see how wise the Jews at Berea were in placing their faith in the

holy Scriptures and making them their basis, and checking everything by them, even

Paul's ministry. This too is the reason why The Berean Forward Movement and The

Berean Publishing Trust have used the title `Berean', for the one aim of these two Trusts

is to make known the written Word of God and the Living Word Who is the centre of it

all. We have no opinions to offer or any gimmicks, but we seek to expound and make

known the Word of God, which is ever living and powerful and completely relevant to

every situation ancient and modern. We invite our hearers and readers to test honestly

and fairly all our witness by what God has said in His eternal Word. The ultimate

responsibility then is theirs. As we seek to `proclaim the Word' without addition or

subtraction, we do so and say with the prophets of old `Thus saith the Lord', without

apology and with absolute certainty for the Scriptures are God's and not ours. Here we

have something changeless and eternally secure, a sure foundation for our faith `the

impregnable rock of Holy Scripture' as Gladstone once described it.

Like the apostle Paul of old, we endeavour to declare `all the counsel of God' (Acts

20:26,27), and this means we not only preach the gospel of God's grace, making known a

Saviour Who can `save to the uttermost' (Heb. 7:25), but also the deep things of the

Word, the exceeding riches that God wishes to make known to His redeemed people

(Col. 1:25-27).