tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8505749622183039650.post3664350220775298020..comments2023-10-02T03:19:31.569+11:00Comments on Dead Flies and Perfume: You can't read the Bible like any other book...?Mike Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13382354162198484322noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8505749622183039650.post-82564495768533011172012-09-28T13:38:53.189+10:002012-09-28T13:38:53.189+10:00Thanks Alison, that is very encouraging! Hooray fo...Thanks Alison, that is very encouraging! Hooray for your friend!<br /><br />I have a couple of hunches about doing it this way.<br />Like you say, I think it might be more accessible to people who aren't believers. We just read it and talk about it.<br />My other hunch is that it may be easier to reproduce the group. You don't have to have mad bible study leading skills to get a bunch of people together and talk about what you have read. Mike Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11525682801952791861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8505749622183039650.post-44829610636143624442012-09-28T09:58:13.485+10:002012-09-28T09:58:13.485+10:00A couple of years ago, I asked a friend to read th...A couple of years ago, I asked a friend to read the bible with me and she was up for it. We started working through Mark. After about three meet-ups she asked if we could stop. It had got her thinking about a whole lot of stuff and she'd decided to be an agnostic.<br /><br />But then recently she became a Christian recently. Upon the recommendation of another friend she has been devouring the bible - She read through John, Acts, Romans, Ephesians, Jonah, parts of Genesis and half of Matthew in a couple of months. Somewhere around John, Acts and Romans she decided that Christianity was right after all! <br /><br />When I asked her why she didn't engage the first time we read the bible she said (apologetically!) that it was way too boring. We were going so slowly that it didn't make sense. This time around she has "read it like a book" (her actual words) and this time around she found Jesus!<br />Alisonhttp://spally.livejournal.comnoreply@blogger.com