Bible Study Time

During our morning Bible study, the children and I have been doing a great little book titled Write Upon My Heart: Obedience, published by Keepers of the Faith. I am enjoying this character study. We also have the Cheerfulness book.

But - I read from Jeanie's Journal about reading through the Bible. She hit home when she talked about children knowing all the Bible stories, and reading lots of PARTS of the Bible, but never actually reading all the way THROUGH the Bible. In her newsletter she sent a great little check list to print off to be able to mark off as you read through the New Testament.

Now I just love checklists!!! So I thought this would be great! I gathered all my children to me, and explained what we were doing and why we were changing. Then I turned to Mathew and started reading the introduction, and cheerfully explaining that these were man's words about God's words.

And my 11 yr old slowly raises her hand and gets that "I have something to say" look on her face. I sigh and wonder what is going to interrupt our Bible study time today. And my little scholar says
"Don't you think we should start in Genesis? That is the beginning. Starting in Mathew is like starting half way through the story."

I love my little angel. She makes an excellent point.

So I backed up - and we started at Genesis. We are only on day three. And I don't have a checklist for the Old Testament. But we are enjoying it. And we have had some really good conversations in the short time we have been doing this.

Pray for us that we can follow through and complete this "Assignment"