It’s good to have a plan and it’s even better to do it!
My current Bible reading plan is the E100 Challenge.
E100 is a Bible Reading Challenge that gets people reading the Bible they already own. It dares people to pick up their Bible, re-engage the scriptures and allow God to do something powerful through His Word…
Scripture Union are sponsoring this plan and they have a long term passion to have the Bible being read, discusssed understood and used powerfully by the Holy Spirit to bring men and women, girls and boys to Jesus Christ and for them to grow in that knowledge for mature discipleship.
More information, including teaching, preaching and discussion resources on the website, E100 Challenge.
Rob Stanley has encouraged some Tasmanians to share their Bible reading plans on our Facebook page, here.
Further ideas from David Rogers-Smith for making good use of E100, here.
Taken a while to work through the challenge. It is easy to complicate a quite simple thing: a set Scripture portion a day. But how do you read it – a small section mulled over regularly till its deeper meaning dawns or a large slab of often fairly well known passages we ‘know’ but have not fed on? What does it mean to feed on the Word (Deut 8:3 quoted by Jesus in Matt 4:4) – how does a text satisfy our hunger, our longing? Is it just a text or is the Word of God more than Scripture? (Psalm 19:1ff) How does the Word bring life? (Gen 1:3 cf John 1:1-5?) How do we feed on the Bread of life (John 6:35ff)? Whatever, just do it??
I identify with your “think through”, Alan.
The Holy Spirit which breathed the Scripture through human lives and hands brings its life to us today: in community, applying our minds in the context of the community in which we live accompanied with ongoing review as we apply this meaning to our life.
And the end conclusion? – Yes, just do it! This certainly applies to this disciple.