72 Straight Hours of Bible Kick off a Year of Study at Christ Church, Lincoln

Christ Church in Lincoln is reading the entire Bible, out loud, in three days. For 72 hours straight, starting this Friday morning at 9 a.m., dozens of people will take turns reading parts of the Bible aloud. By late Monday morning they'll finish by reading the last chapter of Revelation together, with whoever is present, then celebrate Holy Eucharist to give thanks for God in Word and Sacrament.

This weekend is the kick-off event for a year-long focus on the Bible at Christ Church. They are encouraging the whole parish to read The Story (or The Story for Kids), which is a condensed version of some of the best stories in the Bible. Christ Church believes that if we begin to grasp the immensity of God's love for us, as revealed in the entirety of the Bible, our lives will be transformed.
Starting September 12th, their Sunday morning classes for adults and kids will focus on the chapter of The Story that they are reading that week. On Thursdays, they'll offer dinner and Bible studies on full text reading assignments. By the end of the year, participants in "Good Book Thursdays" will have read not just the Reader's Digest version, but the entire Bible.

Christ Church's Rector, The Rev. Scott A Gunn says that "One of the things you discover when you read the whole Bible -- not just the sanitized portions from the Sunday lectionary -- is that parts of it are pretty challenging. But then, life itself is challenging. Having faith in God in a complex world is challenging. When we can see God in the difficult parts of the Bible, we are engaging in a spiritual practice that might help us see God at work in the difficult parts of our live and of our world."
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http://www.christchurchlincoln.org/formation/miqra.html

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