Posted by Lisa Laree to Beer Lahai Roi
WHAT an original title for the post, lol. I started writing, left, came back, looked at it and rolled my eyes.
Eh. It works.
It's January, which means we have a crew of folks at church doing The Shred...which is not a diet-and-exercise routine, lol. It's a plan to read the entire Bible in 30 days. I did it two years ago, and debated doing it again, but decided I'd do another personal challenge instead.
It's still a repeat, but it's a test to see if I can do something I've been thinking about for a while.
One of the past challenges I've done is reading the Bible through in a year, following a simple formula of reading 3 chapters in the Old Testament and 1 chapter in the New Testament every day. If you stick to it faithfully, you'll actually finish before the year is over...sometime in October, I think. But everyone misses a day here and there, so finishing in a year is a definite challenge...but one that's attainable.
But I added another layer on it. One of the Bible study tools I teach is what I call the Bible Survey, that basically involves writing a sentence summary of each chapter as you read it. We did that in four years when I was teaching the High School Girls class.
I wondered if it would be too hard to add the Bible Survey on top of the 3 + 1 reading.
I grabbed a college-ruled, three subject spiral notebook at the grocery store last week and started on Sunday. Two chapters in Genesis on page one, one chapter in Job on the first page of the second division, and one chapter in Matthew on the first page of the third division.
Today I'm on day 4 owing to a bit of a late start, but, like I said, there is a bit of wiggle room in the 3 + 1 plan.
I will still be doing the Heart/Hearts study on Fridays (or maybe Saturdays...lol).
I feel good about this. If I am instructing folks to do this, I should be doing it myself, no?
Here we go...
