Jesus is the Word. The Bible is not the Word. It is an account of the Word.
We have a winner. You can stop there.
That's what your church teaches you anyway...They have to elevate their man-made traditions to the level of authority as the spoken words of God...
The word of God is NOT just an account of God...There is POWER in the words of God which are the scriptures...Power that your church doesn't have when it goes outside the scriptures...
The Word is an interesting phrase well known to the Jews prior to the Incarnation in their Targums (as the MEMRA). As such I can identify the Word as a mechanism by which God communicates to His Creation. I also identify it with our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus. I also identify it with a source for a thinking process which is used by God the Holy Spirit as we grow in Him.
Scripture, I identify with the Word of God. Written form of His Word which is given by God.
The Bible is an anthology of some 66 books of Scripture recognized by assemblies of believers, by the apostles, as being identifiable with Scripture containing His Word.
Jesus is human and divine. There have been theophanies throughout human history and the second person of the Godhead, whom we know today as our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus is physically seated in heaven at the right hand of the Father. He is also identified as the Word, and interestingly the Son indwelt the Father during the Incarnation, expressing the deity of the Son.