What is the Holy Spirit's role when someone handles God's Word?
Handling God's Word must be done with the leading and directing of the Holy Spirit, not flippantly or carelessly. The Holy Spirit guides the teacher so that the Word is treated as an awesome responsibility, and prayer for protection from error reflects dependence on that direction.
Les explains that whenever we handle the Word of God, it is not something we can do flippantly. It has to be done with the leading and directing of the Holy Spirit. He treats this as an awesome responsibility, and his daily prayer is, “Lord, keep me from error,” because he would never want to mislead anyone. His hope is simply to get people to start enjoying their Bible, and he says this is working: many who had been in church all their life are just now really beginning to understand and enjoy their own Bible, which is what God intended.