Conversation. Catechetically, we use the Small Catechism and Explanation from CPH for our kids. Fine. They're little folks at First Communion time, 8 to 12, but in Confirmation often in HS.
Adults, however, come with such a varied background in Christianity and Bible as well as educationally that it's not possible to use a mega-tool like LSB. TMI. Way TMI.
So we are using a very easy to read New Testament - Good News, with a read-through and then theological commentary. And - the ABS has versions that lead to the theological components of the NT with underlining and directives. Kind of cool, especially since yesterday the passage on the lead-down list was Romans 3.
My Anklage is that Lutheran stuff seems in general to be designed class-wise for the educated, and therefore elitist. The Readers' Edition BOC is, to me an effort to address that in terms of the confessions. Whatever one thinks of the scholarship and ideological positions taken in the book itself, the effort in my opinion is needed.
Same would apply in terms of Bibles. Now - a couple years from now the folks in the Adult Instruction units I'm teaching will hopefully be placed to read the information in LSB, so I may present them with one as they make their affirmation of faith. But on the way to that day, I'm using ABS materials.
Dave Benke