Build Up the Church

There are many things that help build up a local church.

1. A good teaching program is one of these things.  The pulpit should help in teaching Bible based good lessons.
2. Each person should be encouraged to “be a daily Bible reader.”  Once one gets into the habit, he cannot go to sleep at night unless he has read his Bible that day.
3. Reading the Bible is one thing, studying it is another.  One might study a few verses and get “the meat out of such” to great encouragement.
4. Some have a goal to read the Bible through in a year.  Think that would be hard?  There are 929 chapters in the OT, and 260 in the New Testament.  That means there are only 1189 chapters in the Bible.  If you read just 3 and one forth chapters each day you can read the Bible, Old and New Testaments, in a year.  Most spend more time studying the Bible that seeing how fast they can read it.  Surely we need to study, but don’t neglect reading all of it.

Are you a daily bible reader?  If no, why not?  You cannot form a better habit…..than reading your Bible regularly.
Truth in Love  Vol 7, #7 July 2014, Editor David Bonner