How to read the bible for all its worth

So i have just barely begun to read Gordon Fee/Douglas Stuarts "how to read the bible for all its worth" and i have already enjoyed its aim and direction, heres why

~The concern of the scholar is primarily with that the text meant; the concern of the layperson is usually with what the text means. The believing scholar insists that we must have both. Reading the Bible with an eye ONLY to its meaning for us can lead to a great deal of nonsense as well as every imaginable kind of error-because it lasks controls.

~Interpretation that aims at, or thrives on, uniqueness can usually be attributed to pride. (an attempt to "outclever" the rest of the world), a false understanding of spirituality (wherein the Bible is full of deeply buried truths waiting to be mined by the spiritually sensitive person with special insight), or vested interests (the need to support a theological bias, especially in dealing with texts that seem to go against that bias). Unique interpretations are usually wrong. This is not to say that the correct understanding of a text may not often seem unique to someone who hears it for the first time. But it is to say that uniqueness is NOT the aim of our task

Just by reading the first half of the first chapter, i think that i should have been required to read this book (and practiced) on my DTS.
later
nic