How the One Year Bible Club Started
Back in 1989, I graduated from Kings Way Missionary Institute. The Missions Organization I was a part of gave me a gift for completing the nine month training course learning Spanish language and culture. The gift was called; The One Year Bible.
What was different about it was that the whole Bible was divided up into 365 daily readings of the Scriptures in the order of Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs.
At first glance, I was not impressed because I had just gone through Nine months of intensive training and the thought of reading another book, even a devotional Bible was not so exciting. However, I received the gift with sincere thanksgiving but packed it into a bankers box just the same. After settling into my humble studio apartment in the Dominican Republic, I pulled it out again and took another look.
To be honest, my habits of Bible reading were pretty hit and miss. I thought to myself, I'm going to give this a try. So, I opened it up to the current date and read that days reading. Immediately, I sensed God speaking to me through His Word. I read it again the following day, the next day and everyday until it became a new habit. I have discovered that reading the Bible daily brings great spiritual benefits. Everyday that you take time to read the Word of God your really taking time to meet with God because God and His Word are one!
What was different about it was that the whole Bible was divided up into 365 daily readings of the Scriptures in the order of Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs.
At first glance, I was not impressed because I had just gone through Nine months of intensive training and the thought of reading another book, even a devotional Bible was not so exciting. However, I received the gift with sincere thanksgiving but packed it into a bankers box just the same. After settling into my humble studio apartment in the Dominican Republic, I pulled it out again and took another look.
To be honest, my habits of Bible reading were pretty hit and miss. I thought to myself, I'm going to give this a try. So, I opened it up to the current date and read that days reading. Immediately, I sensed God speaking to me through His Word. I read it again the following day, the next day and everyday until it became a new habit. I have discovered that reading the Bible daily brings great spiritual benefits. Everyday that you take time to read the Word of God your really taking time to meet with God because God and His Word are one!
Listening or reading the Word of God Daily
The thought began to grow within me to create an audio version of the One Year Bible and include my Teaching Commentary daily. I imagined how easy it would be to make the Word of God available to either listen on peoples computers, smart phones or ipods by mp3 audio downloads or read as a pdf.
So I'm in the process of recording the New Testament following the reading plan found in the One Year Bible and posting these devotionals daily.
This is also how I chose the name "One Year Bible Club."
So I'm in the process of recording the New Testament following the reading plan found in the One Year Bible and posting these devotionals daily.
This is also how I chose the name "One Year Bible Club."