Our church is having a revival….for a whole year! It’s a different kind of revival. We are having a Bible Revival.
If you’ll notice, a lot of people don’t carry around their Bible anymore. At church there is sometimes a screen where the words to the songs are posted. And when the preacher is preaching, the Scriptures are posted as well. So people don’t bring their Bibles to church as much any more.
With smart phones and Ipads, etc. people have the Bible downloaded, so they can read it – which is good – but then people don’t carry their Bible around like they used to.
So, we are focusing on keeping your Bible close this year. When you walk through places like Starbucks or the mall it makes you feel good to see people reading their Bibles. We should be those people!
At our church we’ve started giving prizes to all those who have their Bibles in church. We’ve started taking pictures and posting them of different places people are reading their Bible. One of our Dads took his family to the zoo. As they paused to spend some time at one animal’s area, he sat down and read his Bible for a while. His picture is on the bulletin board, “Bible Revival at the Zoo”.
Why don’t you get in the habit of carrying your Bible with you? I used to carry mine everyday to school. It opened up a lot of conversations with people about why I carried it.
Bring it with you to Study Hall, read it while you’re in line at the store, take it out when you’re waiting in the car for someone or when you’re on the job.
Electronics are great….but people need to see us reading the Bible.
