A Self-Imposed Famine

In Chapter 7 of Give Praise to God, the authors make the point that God speaks to the hearts of His people through the reading of His Word.

...And so, this act of worship, in which the verbal self-revelation of God is addressed unedited to the hearts of His gathered people, ought not to be ignored, skipped, or squeezed out. It is irritating enough to have the endure preachers who say, “I do not have enough time to read my text today” (as if to say, “we need to hurry on past God’s Word to get to mine!”), but to have to endure whole worship services in which the formal reading of God’s Word is absent is a self-imposed famine of the Word (142).

Simply put, how/why does a church meet without scripture as a part of the service (yes, this is a cross-over into the Monkey Book)? Call me ignorant, but I don’t quite understand how a group of people can dare to call themselves a church, having a worship service, without being Biblically based - even false religions/cults have their sacred texts!