Read the Bible for a Change

Following the Bible is not about reforming our behaviors by strict rule keeping. Rather, it is an invitation to our imagination, offering to us whole new ways of seeing and being in the world in the ways that God describes it. God does not liberate us in Christ by giving us more and different laws, but by enabling us to look at literally everything form a different perspective, with a new reference point for reality.
Instead of depending upon our eyesight to provide us with reliable information on the way things really are, we are offered hope by depending on faith-empowered imagination to conceive of things from a God's-eye view.

The world itself can be re-created in our minds, not as the frivolous fictions of wishful thinking, but by my fully embracing the fact that God's own version of reality, seen with eyes of faith while I read the Scriptures, is more accurate, more truthful, and more soul satisfying than any rival version, including (especially) those in which I am at the center of my universe of reality.
-p 83, Lubeck