that God is by no means confined to speaking through Scripture.14 He can speak through dreams, through nature, in our experiences, and so on. Where he so speaks, we do well to attend to him! However, as Barth observes, within the Church God’s ordained means to speak is the Bible, the canon of holy Scripture, and all extrabiblical “speakings” must always be tested alongside Scripture. Within the church Scripture must be read, listened to, and preached, for only thus can we hope to be addressed by