Reading the Bible in 90 Days

Bay View Baptist Church will be starting an unusual program next Monday. It is a program to read the Bible, cover to cover, in 90 days. Why is this so unusual? Certainly Bible reading is not an unusual activity in a Baptist Church. We say things like, "I believe every word it says -- from beginning to end." Part of the problem is that there are a lot of people who say this who have never read every word it says. The Bible says a lot of radical things. So this program is an attempt to get people to really read the whole Bible. This program is different for several reasons:

• The whole Bible is read -- not just selected verses
• The Bible is read from beginning to end -- like a novel (of course we know it isn't a novel -- and there are many different kinds of literature)
  
• The Bible is read in 90 days -- a relatively short time -- allowing the participant to "get the whole picture" before forgetting where they started
• It is not a study -- it is a reading
• It is not devotional in nature -- it is a reading

I am excited about this. Certainly this program wont end all of our problems and our people wont be Bible scholars -- or even Bible students. But they will have a basic understanding of what is in the Bible and how this information is presented. At least this is a start. If we are people of the book -- we need to read that book!

More info is found about this program at http://www.biblein90days.com/