Follow Up To My Bible Post From Last Week:
Someone asked me if we really started at the beginning of the Bible and read straight through because they felt it was such a long stretch through the OT to get to the gospels. Here is my response.
Our staple is to read along from front to back and to make connections as we read. We do that every morning. We also have one additional study time each week where we read in the NT..right now we are working on the book of Acts (previously read Luke).
My boys also have their own personal study time that they work on their own projects. This could be a study of a person in the Bible, the study of a celebration like Passover, a prophecy, a word study, or a project of personal interest.
Our aim is to make everything point to the Kingdom of God...the Tabernacle in the wilderness was a foreshadow of the Temple arrangement, and a model of the heavenly arrangement. The sacrifices of the Law were leading to Christ. If you have a cross-reference Bible you can also take time to look up some of the references that will take you to fulfillment of prophecy or give you a clearer connection to the the NT.
I also recommend at least one time through your Bible to read it chronologically. You can Google "books of the Bible in chronological order" and there are places that give you a way to start from the beginning of history and travel through time. (This actually puts the book of Job after Genesis and you read the book of Psalms as your work through Samuel and Chronicles.) Here is one to give you an idea: Books in Chronological Order.
As far as pace, some days we work through more than a chapter and we read every day....not just school days. I think we are working on our 4th time through as a family. Some of the children have additionally worked on their own to read the Bible in a year as a project. My daughter is currently working on reading through in Spanish.
The intent of my original blog entry was to give some shape to how we grew through the stages with our children. We always aimed to make it meaningful and to make it something they could apply in their lives. The questions I listed in my post are really good at reaching little hearts (big hearts too).
2 comments:
Thanks for the great post! We do the same thing. We've tried several different bible studies and none seem to fit. At this beginning of this year we started reading the bible on page 1 and are slowly progressing through. My DS11 and I are learning so much be taking our time. We read the notes and cross reference with maps and bible dictionaries. It seems to be working out well!
Thanks!!
Both boys have read through the bible, using a Rocket Reader Bible. It was their first large book to read. We also volunteered for the Good News Club - and they work through the entire bible in a 5 year cycle. We volunteered for 4 years, only missing the Life of Christ series. Going through 2 years of reading the bible through along with the Good News Club, has laid such a solid foundation to Who God is, and God Has a Plan. And that His ways were seldom to never Man's ways. I find that their anxiety for tomorrow is diminished, and their faith of who God is - is a full mixture of faith with experience with history. I exhort all the moms reading this - to not only think it is a good idea - but to do it. Start with a Children's bible if your current thick KJV seem daunting. ;)
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