What? Read the Bible?!? Me?

From the beginning, Jacob's Well has held up the Bible as an important component to growing up spiritually and we deal with it pretty extensively every week in our gatherings. We have also admitted that reading the Bible is not the easiest thing in the world. Mainly because... it isn't. "Wrestling" is the word I often couple with the Bible. You don't just read it, you get down and dirty with it. You become vulnerable to it. You push against it and let it push against you.

This doesn't happen all at once. Thus the other thing I like to say is that you have to 'live with the Bible.' That means you have to get to know it. Learn its quirks and nooks and crannies. You can't evaluate any part of it very effectively if you don't have a good sense of what the overall message and direction of the Bible is. So it takes time.

During the series starting this Sunday (June 1) we are working through the book of 1st Corinthians (see overview of the series HERE, and an introduction to the 1st Corinthians HERE.)  Just come and learn. BUT, if you are up for a challenge, start reading the Bible. Dust off the Good Book at your house, if there is one somewhere you can find. We will have some available to purchase Sunday if you want or need a new one - or a first one! Look up 1st Corinthians in the Table of Contents and read chapters 1-4 of it. Some of it will be kind of hard, and maybe seem irrelevant or weird, but don't worry too much about that. We'll try to help with that stuff on Sunday a.m. You can also read the chapters online with links that are found on either of those resources linked above.

OTHER THOUGHTS:

Got questions about what you are reading? Blog them here. I and others will keep our eyes on it and chime in with ideas, but probably not a lot of answers.

Each Sunday we will include some insights into understanding this book of the Bible in particular, and we will also discuss some ways of studying the Bible more effectively.

1st Corinthians is a great book in The Great Book. We want to make this a practical time of being inspired by God and making the Bible more relevant, understandable and meaningful to you.