Reading the Bible in Church

This is proving a popular topic for Baptist bloggers and those who write letters to the Baptist Time at the moment. I have to smile a very wry smile, and wonder what C H Spurgeon would have made of the more conservative churches whose overt use of the Bible is minimal whereas the more middle-of-the-road and liberal churches retain traditional patterns with reasonable chunks of Old and New Testament each week. Sorry CHS, my old mate, the downgrade wasn't where or what you thought it was! A lo