90 Day Bible Challenge
Psalm 119: 16 | “I delight in your decrees; I will not neglect your word.”
Currently less than 1/2 of 1% of 18-23 year olds have a biblical world view. I don’t know if that shocks you but after I thought about it for a few minutes I realized that it didn’t shock me. Here’s why…Most 18-23 year olds (most Christians today no matter what age they are) don’t read their Bibles on a regular basis. We read everything else. Every self-help book available. Every personal growth book on the christian book store shevles. We make jokes about our Bibles having a thick layer of dust on them and how they are lost somewhere deep under a pile of magizines on our night stand. We, the church today, don’t spend a lot of time in the Bible. Therefore, we don’t have a biblical worldview. How can a person have a biblical worldview if they don’t read the Bible?
I believe we’ve become a generation of the Church that is neglecting God’s written revelation. If I look back over 28 years of going to church I can think of hundreds of topics that were preached on but I can only think of a handful of times that I was challenged to read the Bible on my own and allow God to teach me.
That is a problem! And that problem continues today.
That is why we have decided to challenge the Impact Community to read all the way through the Bible this summer. It’s awesome to study certain books of the Bible. It’s great to study verses of the Bible. But there’s something to reading from Genesis to Revelation. You start to understand that the Bible is a story. A story about God and how he has revealed Himself to His people.
Nathan, a Pastor with Impact has said that if you were going to be apart of a Harry Potter book club it would be a requirement that you had read the Harry Potter Books. Or a Twilight book club I guess! We need to challenge those in the church to read the book that we base our faith one. We need to be a book club that challenges its members to read the book that tells the story of the God we worship.
That is why we are challenging you to read the Bible in 90 days this summer.
Will you join us?
Here’s how it will work. We will start on Wednesday, May 20, 2009. We will read around 11 chapters every day and we will read 2 chapters of Psalms and/or Proverbs.
It will be easy to get off track and get distracted so we encourage you to have a few people that you talk to about what you’re reading. Have a couple accountability parterns. Journal about your experience. Underline things. Highlight things. Circle things. Ask questions.
And let me assure you of this…Satan does not want you to do this. He will attack you in the midst of this challenge. So pray that God will protect you. Ask others to pray that God will give you the courage and strength to resist evil. Maybe read the Psalms in the morning and make them your prayer. Do whatever it takes to resist Satan because he will try to knock you down.
If you have any questions please let me know. This isn’t just for the Impact Community. Invite your family, friends, home churches, boyfriends, girlfriends, whoever to join us.
Let’s be a generation that delights in the decrees of our God and a generation that will not neglect His written revelation!
You can go here to print a calendar that will help you stay on track: http://impactuncc.com/article/
