Bible Engagement Principles
The Bible Engagement Blog offers a rich exploration of how individuals and communities can deepen their relationship with Scripture. Drawing on research, biblical truth, and the experiences and insights of pastors and teachers, the Blog emphasizes that Bible engagement isn’t merely about reading the text, but involves a transformative encounter with God through His Word. […]
Consumerism and Bible Engagement
Consumerism and Bible engagement … Consumerism is a huge stumbling block to Bible engagement. It’s a stumbling block because the perspectives, values, and attitudes that inform the essence of consumerism (selfishness, self-centredness, and entitlement) are the antithesis of the perspectives, values, and attitudes that connect us with Jesus and His Story. Consumerism is the dominant […]
Professionalism and Bible Engagement
Why are there so many people sitting in church services Sunday after Sunday who never, or rarely, read (hear, listen, connect), reflect, remember, and respond to God’s Word? In another article, Unleashing the Bible in the Church, three obstacles to Bible engagement were identified – pastors who don’t get it, people who don’t want it, […]
Dramatizing Scripture
Dramatizing Scripture … “I hear, I forget. I see, I remember. I do, I understand” – Ancient Proverb. Bringing artistry and Scripture together. When God created us, He adorned our lives with humour, pathos, fragility, and strength. These unique traits provide brilliant opportunities for artistry and Scripture to come together. Little wonder the prophets of […]
Increasing Bible Engagement
Increasing Bible engagement … In the Hebrew Scriptures, the broad meaning for “wax” or “waxed” is “increase”. Although the Hebrew word for “wax” is translated into English as “increase,” it specifically means either an “increase in increase” or, seemingly paradoxically, but logically, an “increase in decrease.” Like where “David grew (waxed) stronger and stronger” while […]
Storying Scripture
For our spiritual well-being, after Jesus, Bible stories are what we need most in life. Sharing Bible stories is called “storying” or “storying Scripture.” Storying is a recently coined phrase to describe the process of carefully crafting stories from Scripture so that they stay true to the original text but are told verbally, naturally and […]
Bible Engagement and Orality
Bible engagement and orality … According to the International Orality Network, 80% of people in the world don’t understand God’s Word when it’s delivered to them by literate means because they’re oral preference learners. Even in literate cultures, many people won’t read God’s Word or prefer oral ways of connecting with God’s Word. Strangely, even […]
Bible Engagement Blog Milestone
This is a Bible Engagement Blog milestone – it’s the 100th post. The Blog was birthed out of a sense of calling to advocate for Bible engagement. I don’t think it’s a cause I would naturally have chosen. It sort of chose me. Yes, I deeply love and appreciate the Word and the One of […]
Twenty Quotes From the Bible Engagement Blog
Twenty quotes from the Bible Engagement Blog … Anything I’ve written that may seem insightful or informative comes solely from the insight and understanding God provides. In fact, when my writing flows well, I’m most conscious of being empowered by God. Conversely, when being a word-smith is a strain, that’s when I’m usually striving in […]
World Bloggers’ Day
There’s an entire day dedicated to celebrating blogs and the people behind them. Since 2004, August 31st has been recognized as World Bloggers’ Day. A brief history of the origins of blogging. In 1994, Justin Hall, an undergraduate at Swarthmore College, launched links.net and began using it as a personal diary. People often credit Hall […]