Saturday, January 1, 2011

Assimilating Scripture

I love this quote from Eugene Peterson:
“Christians feed on Scripture.  Holy Scripture nurtures holy community as food nurtures the human body.  Christians don’t simply learn or study or use Scripture; we assimilate it, take it into our lives in such a way that it gets metabolized into acts of love….”

Do you have a plan to assimilate Scripture in 2011?   There are a number of plans available to help you do just that.   Plans that range from reading a chapter a day to 10 chapters a day, from reading the New Testament in a year, to mastering books of the Bible.  Check out this collection of reading plans to find one that fits you and your personality.  

At New City Church, we use the English Standard Version in our worship services.   You can click over here to find 10 different reading plans using the ESV. 


[HT:  Justin Taylor]

And here is a pdf of a Bible checklist in which you can check off the chapters as you read them.  [source:  Mars Hill Church]

Listening to Scripture.  Did you know that you can listen to the Bible read out loud?   Check out these resources:

Bible.is :  with options for a dramatized or normal reading + multiple languages
ESV : each chapter has an option to be read by a narrator


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