so last weekend my church went to a retreat at sky ranch. it was sweet! one of the messages the speaker challenged us with was about reading the Bible. this one probably hit me the hardest. he asked us, "How many of you have read the Bible?" people began to raise their hands. he continued, "I mean, the whole Bible.."
13 people out of 180 had read the entire Bible--every word. i haven't. he shared with us that as Christians, we have a HUGE credibility problem. how can we claim to believe the Bible if we don't even know entirely what it says? if we haven't even given our best attempt to read it all? so, i challenge you all, every one of you, to read the whole Bible. i am. and even if you've read most of it, start over and read the whole thing. if you have read the entire thing, AWESOME. do it again. you can never read too much of the Bible.
hopefully i can keep posting little things i learned and encountered from the sky ranch retreat last weekend. keep me accountable, PLEASE! text me, comment on here, facebook me, whatever. i'm working on priorities so i need y'all's help with this! love you guys so much
-Alexa :]
Wow alexa! That's really awesome! I'll be praying for you, that you persevere in this. Let us know what you learn along the way :)
ReplyDeletealexa,i have recently decided to read the whole bible also. its sort of been something that hit me like you said how can we say we believe it all when we havent read it all. i never really had a passion to read the entire bible before and sort of stuck to the new testament and psalm, but have learned so much so far. i hope we can encourage each other through it because it wont be easy. i didnt go to camp the same week as you but look me up on facebook or comment here if you are struggling through it and need encouragement to persevere and i will do the same. keep it up and thanks for posting.
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haley-thank you so much!
ReplyDeletejocelyn-heck YES! that would be awesome. i am reading it from a chronological reading plan..how are you doing this?
i am just reading start to finish. before i felt like the first few books were extremely boring, but now i know that although they might be a bit more of a struggle to read through they are in there for a reason and it gives me a passion to keep on going!!
ReplyDeleteYES! oh man this is gonna be awesome.
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