if you are brand new to reading the bible and have no clue where to start
i'm so happy for you well not the clueless part i wanna i wanna help you with that but if you
maybe for the first time in your entire life are excited to open this book to learn about
god and to deepen your faith that is one of the most important moments of a person's entire life
makes me think just a couple sundays ago at our church this young guy came
almost jogging up to me almost dragging his girlfriend in hand
this young guy had just become a christian just gotten baptized and he asked me
my girlfriend wants to start reading the bible do you have one and i pulled off one of the the
free copies that we had in the church lobby and excitedly handed over to her and then he asked
me this question and she kind of leaned in for my answer he said pastor where should she start
it's actually a really good question in my experience as a pastor
starting at the right spot in the bible is essential to actually reading the bible
and that might sound like kind of an odd thing to say i mean where do you start uh i don't know
on the first page it's like asking someone hey what part of the movie should i start in
i don't know the beginning so the bible is really unique in that way that you know we live so many
years after it's been written that it actually it takes a little bit of thought and wisdom to know
the best spot to begin and that's why uh today and in a bunch of videos to come i want to share with
you what i think from my experience the best progression to read the bible in and it's still
going to take you some time and it will still require some effort but i hope it's a really good
easy to follow path that gets you closer to god and stronger in your faith so if you're ready for
that journey here's my first suggestion my first suggestion is not to find the right somewhere
but to find the right someone
here's what i mean by that you could start on page one of the bible or halfway through the
bible or with the life of jesus in the gospels but i think if you try to read any of it by yourself
you're going to run into some problems really quickly the bible is a beautiful
book with a simple message of god's love but it's also a profound book that has
wisdom that you can't get to the bottom of and if you try to go verse by verse or chapter by chapter
as a brand new bible reader without help i think you're going to struggle quickly and frequently
so here's my first suggestion don't find the perfect somewhere find the perfect someone
like right now can you think of someone that kind of you have this sense that they get the bible
maybe it's a friend who first invited you to their church
maybe it's one of your relatives that goes every sunday or who has read the bible themselves
cover to cover can you think of someone that you know that you like talking to that
you kind of trust that knows a little bit more about this book than you do
i think if you reach out to them and ask them to guide you they would be so humbled
and if they're anything like me so excited to teach you what they have been taught about the
life death and forgiveness of jesus actually that's not just my suggestion though that's the
story that we find in one part of the bible it's one of my favorites in the book of acts chapter 8.
uh it's the story about this african guy who's sitting in his chariot all right they didn't
have suvs back in the day he's riding his chariot back to africa and god actually tells a christian
named philip to run up to the chariot and start a conversation about the bible here's what happens
then philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading isaiah the prophet isaiah is one of
the books in the bible do you understand what you're reading philip asked [Music] how can
i the man said unless someone explains it to me so he invited philip to come up and sit with him
the man asked phillip tell me please who is the prophet isaiah talking about himself or someone
else then philip began with that very passage of scripture and told him the good news about
jesus i love that so much do you understand what you're reading and the guy's humble enough
to admit how can i unless someone who knows it helps me with it that's my prayer for you
in the following videos i'm going to give you a really simple path to follow of what
pages what parts of this book but the most important thing you could do is to reach out
to humbly ask i'm never going to understand this without help would you help me
in this book jesus once said those who humble themselves will be exalted so if you want to
be exalted with knowledge with god's love with his forgiveness for knowing him in a personal
and intimate way humble yourself and ask someone would you help that's the first and very best spot
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