My Wish For You in 2010…Get Some Bible Going

January 1, 2010 in Connexus,Life,Mission,Online,Spiritual Growth with 4 Comments

Happy New Year!  If I had one thing I could wish for you this year in terms of your personal growth, it would be to get into the Bible in a fresh way.

If you do that:

  • Your prayer life will grow
  • The status quo will get shaken up
  • You’ll develop a fresh heart for people who don’t know Christ
  • You will begin to apply what you now know to your life in new ways
  • You’ll know God more intimately
  • You’ll better understand what you believe
  • You can test what people tell you (including church leaders) for yourself
  • You’ll get more passionate about sharing your faith with people who don’t know Jesus

Here’s my current favourite way to read the Bible:  YouVersion. As you start 2010, you can access one of 20 daily reading plans here.  Pick the one that suits you best.  Some will take you through the entire Bible in a year…others through parts of the Bible.  What I love is that this gives people an easy way to make the Bible part of every day life.  If you’ve never read the Bible before, this could be an easy and do-able first step.

Best yet, you can access YouVersion off your desktop or your smartphone.  My daily bible reading has been off my phone for the last year and I love it.

Hope you find this to be a great new way to encounter God’s Word in a fresh way.

PS.  I’m doing the M’Cheyne reading plan this year.

About Carey Nieuwhof: Carey Nieuwhof is lead pastor of Connexus Community Church and author of the best selling books, Leading Change Without Losing It and Parenting Beyond Your Capacity. Carey speaks to North American and global church leaders about change, leadership, and parenting.

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  • http://www.thebassman.ca Tim L. Walker

    I did the Robert Roberts reading plan on YouVersion last year (OT once, NT twice). This year, along with the Community Group that I lead, we’re all going to do the Chronological reading plan on YouVersion, then discuss what we read briefly each week.

  • Carey

    What a great idea Tim. The Chronological bible is great! It will get you longing to meet Jesus by June would be my guess (at least that’s what happened to me when i did it a few years ago), but what a great small group initiative!

  • http://www.thebassman.ca Tim L. Walker

    I don’t think we’ll hit the NT until fall 2010… the OT is a lot longer than the NT, you know. ;) Hopefully if we’re discussing it as a group weekly, it’ll encourage people in the group that don’t read the Bible daily, to do so, so that they can join in on the weekly discussions. ;) Kinda like Bible-Reading Peer-Pressure. :P

  • Linda

    Thanks Carey, I loved the idea of downloading the Bible to my Blackberry. Unfortunately the BB Pearl couldn’t handle the memory, it deleted all my old emails and froze…kind of like the weather. Once I deleted the application all was good again. I am now going to look at downloading it to my computer!