Comments on: One Minute Bible - I Must be Grumpy http://blog.likeafire.net/2008/04/23/one-minute-bible-i-must-be-grumpy/ His word is Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:53:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: darren wright http://blog.likeafire.net/2008/04/23/one-minute-bible-i-must-be-grumpy/#comment-23015 darren wright Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:57:54 +0000 http://blog.likeafire.net/2008/04/23/one-minute-bible-i-must-be-grumpy/#comment-23015 :) I have a similar problem, actually two similar problems... when I get asked to resource people, to help them with their ministry with young people and discipleship/mentoring I go into the conversation with a number of ideas that regularly get served back to me with comments like "that sounds like a lot of time" or "don't you have anything quicker and easier?" to which I want to scold the people because time is one of those things that needs to be put into our ministry with young people, adn mentoring above all else takes time and needs time... the second issue is that one minute studies develop biblical literacy, first of all I dont want my ministry to be broken all the way back to biblical literacy = discipleship as there is a lot more to it, and frankly biblical literacy it only a small part of it, more time needs to be put into biblical action, the working through the beatitudes so that the blind see, the poor are blessed... it's the focus on biblical literacy that produces bible studies with fill in the gaps (which are painful) or studies that do not lead to action in areas of mission and justice... anyhoo, gotta move on, my laptop has cut of circulation to my left foot and it's pins and needling all over the place.... :)

I have a similar problem, actually two similar problems…

when I get asked to resource people, to help them with their ministry with young people and discipleship/mentoring I go into the conversation with a number of ideas that regularly get served back to me with comments like “that sounds like a lot of time” or “don’t you have anything quicker and easier?” to which I want to scold the people because time is one of those things that needs to be put into our ministry with young people, adn mentoring above all else takes time and needs time…

the second issue is that one minute studies develop biblical literacy, first of all I dont want my ministry to be broken all the way back to biblical literacy = discipleship as there is a lot more to it, and frankly biblical literacy it only a small part of it, more time needs to be put into biblical action, the working through the beatitudes so that the blind see, the poor are blessed… it’s the focus on biblical literacy that produces bible studies with fill in the gaps (which are painful) or studies that do not lead to action in areas of mission and justice…

anyhoo, gotta move on, my laptop has cut of circulation to my left foot and it’s pins and needling all over the place….

]]> By: Paul http://blog.likeafire.net/2008/04/23/one-minute-bible-i-must-be-grumpy/#comment-23023 Paul Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:50:40 +0000 http://blog.likeafire.net/2008/04/23/one-minute-bible-i-must-be-grumpy/#comment-23023 Digi, amen and amen to your points. Thanks for commenting. Digi, amen and amen to your points. Thanks for commenting.

]]> By: Bo http://blog.likeafire.net/2008/04/23/one-minute-bible-i-must-be-grumpy/#comment-23025 Bo Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:33:55 +0000 http://blog.likeafire.net/2008/04/23/one-minute-bible-i-must-be-grumpy/#comment-23025 Recently, I broke down a day for my students like this. 100% is 24 hours devoted to God, 50% is 12 hours and so on. We got to .78% of our day ended up at 11 minutes. So giving God less than 1% of our time would be 11 minutes, how pathetic to go to 1 minute! Recently, I broke down a day for my students like this. 100% is 24 hours devoted to God, 50% is 12 hours and so on. We got to .78% of our day ended up at 11 minutes. So giving God less than 1% of our time would be 11 minutes, how pathetic to go to 1 minute!

]]> By: BrianW http://blog.likeafire.net/2008/04/23/one-minute-bible-i-must-be-grumpy/#comment-23062 BrianW Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:28:53 +0000 http://blog.likeafire.net/2008/04/23/one-minute-bible-i-must-be-grumpy/#comment-23062 I stopped reading this post at the one-minute mark so I may have missed your point. I believe that reading the Bible in one-minute increments is great training for proof-texting. Isn't that a good thing? I stopped reading this post at the one-minute mark so I may have missed your point. I believe that reading the Bible in one-minute increments is great training for proof-texting. Isn’t that a good thing?

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