Finding relevant and real-life ways of connecting with the bible are important. I use a computer a lot and have my bible loaded onto a computer. Another colleague I know has his loaded onto a palm pilot so he has it easily to hand along with his phone and diary so it is mixed in with everyday life not kept separate for Sundays or special occasion reading!By clicking on the title above 'Right to your computer' you'll be taken to Christ Notes...
Christ Notes are something you can sign up to for free and get daily or weekly chunks of the bible emailed directly to your computer in a translation of your choosing. They have a good selection from Living, New Revised, King James, Revised and more...I think it's an ordinary, practical way of weaving in bible with life and helpful for those who are into making use of 21st century technology as a tool for God in a good way.
At St. Mark's United Reformed Church including messychurch we are finding different ways to get with God's stories and stories of God's people in the bible as well as in our world locally & globally. We re-present and take part in storytelling together but it is still not something we all find easy or regularly do outside of worship gatherings on Saturdays and Sundays.
It is one of my great passions and priorities to find many and varied ways of getting with the Bible through reading, listening, remembering, re-telling, dramatising, taking part, and sharing together and separately. There are lots of questions we have about the Bible as ordinary people making church together in Wythenshawe - how was the bible put together, what didn't make it into the bible, why did some people choose certain books over others, who decided the books of the bible went in what order, why are there so many versions of the bible in English not just one we all have in common? And LOTS more!
Hopefully Vision4Life (the United Reformed Churches process of renewal and regeneration of church in the UK) will enable us to make more opportunities to explore these together and see how they make a difference to how we live, how we worship and work as a church in Wythenshawe and grow Christ's church here.
