The author shows what this means among those who hear us preach and how proclaimers may begin to respond to it. In our age there are no privileged texts. People do not come to a text like the Bible willing to grant it priority or sacred authority in their lives.
Christians grant the text authority.
We understand that people outside the faith do not grant the text authority as we do. What's new is that people within the faith do not grant the text authority as was done in prior centuries. No a priori truth awaits us between the pages of holy writ, at least for most of the people whom we want to address in preaching. For most Gen X-ers and younger people, one set of stories is as valid or invalid as another set. These stories may give insights into truth, but the idea that the story could bear the whole truth about God is not part of the thinking of this generation.