Donald Macleod writes:-

It was one of the great achievements of the Reformation to give the Bible back to the people, stressing that ‘not only the learned, but the unlearned, in a due use of the ordinary means’ could attain to a sufficient understanding of the scriptures (Westminster Confession 1.7). Today, we need to get back to this. The Bible is not targeted at experts, yielding its meaning only to priests or scholars. You don’t need rows of commentaries to understand it. You don’t need to go to a theological college. If you are a Christian, it is for you. Hunger, it has been said, is the best hors d’ oeuvre; and spiritual hunger is the best hermeneutic. If we come to the Bible as needy sinners (‘poor in spirit’, as Jesus Himself put it) then we’ll understand it because we’ll find it speaks to our condition. (A Faith to Live By)