Apply yourself wholly to the text; apply the text wholly to yourself.' Although written over two hundred and fifty years ago, the advice is timeless. Geoff Treasure seeks to discover the relevance of Paul's words, originally written to a small community of first-century believers in a distant, Roman province – to twenty-first-century Christians. Their multiple worlds of family, church, work, friends and wider social contacts differ greatly; the challenge, however, remains the same. How does God's written Word become transformed into the living Word of Christian experience. Paul's words come with the daily challenge to live the life and to walk the talk.