important, he believes, not least because it is through preaching that Christ rules his church and builds up the local church community. Because the Bible first addresses communities, not individuals, so the preaching of the Bible should happen in the local church community initially. Vaughan Roberts’s linkage of the Word and the world is again shaped by John Stott, who wrote, “The preacher is a bridge-builder relating God’s never-changing word to our ever-changing world.”6 Vaughan argues that unless