Next week I have the opportunity to once again minister for a community of believers. This group meets every Wednesday morning from all over their community. People of different ages and denominations coming from different churches and backgrounds all to study God’s Word, the Bible.
I have played the piano many times for this group and each time I arrive I am welcomed with excitement in their voices that I have returned to play some songs for them again. I don’t play for long but long enough to be a blessing for them and for me.
What I find just as exciting is that after I finish my set and they pray for the time together, people immediately split into groups and start studying the Bible. You can see the joy they have in coming together not to be in a social club or to be entertained but to really dive into God’s Word and to find out more about Jesus and His will for their lives.
I know that there are communities around the United States that participate in this program. They get together once a week to study, meditate, and feed off each other for meanings and instructions from above.
How I wish all Christians would pick up their Bible each day and read through it. A great place to start is the book of John in the New Testament. There are even Bibles online that you can read for free anywhere there is an internet connection.
If you’ve been out of the habit of reading and studying the Bible, try it today. Go to Bible Gateway and give it a try. You’ll soon find that joy in studying God’s Word just like those in the community Bible study.
I have played the piano many times for this group and each time I arrive I am welcomed with excitement in their voices that I have returned to play some songs for them again. I don’t play for long but long enough to be a blessing for them and for me.
What I find just as exciting is that after I finish my set and they pray for the time together, people immediately split into groups and start studying the Bible. You can see the joy they have in coming together not to be in a social club or to be entertained but to really dive into God’s Word and to find out more about Jesus and His will for their lives.
I know that there are communities around the United States that participate in this program. They get together once a week to study, meditate, and feed off each other for meanings and instructions from above.
How I wish all Christians would pick up their Bible each day and read through it. A great place to start is the book of John in the New Testament. There are even Bibles online that you can read for free anywhere there is an internet connection.
If you’ve been out of the habit of reading and studying the Bible, try it today. Go to Bible Gateway and give it a try. You’ll soon find that joy in studying God’s Word just like those in the community Bible study.
Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.
2 Timothy 4:2-5
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