The Word is not the Scripture alone. The Word is Christ and the visible Christ today is the Apostolic Church. If I post something and you doubt the meaning, you would ask me, right? You would not ask your pastor, or Harley, or anyone but me what I mean. Likewise, the Holy Scripture is the product of the Church. So, we ask the Church rather than your pastor. To do otherwise is foolish, although I recognize that many Protestants attempt to do so.
The WORD when capitalized is Christ, when not it is scripture
Jhn 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Jhn 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
2Cr 6:7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
Col 1:5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;