Bible Engagement Preaching
Bible engagement preaching … There are approximately 37 million churches worldwide and 34,000 (Christian) denominations. If every church has only 1 service a week (most churches have more than 1 service), about 2 billion sermons are preached yearly! That’s a lot of sermonizing, meaning the Bible is the most talked-about book in the world! The […]
Bible Engagement Basics
Bible Engagement Basics. Publication. I’m excited to announce that Bible Engagement Basics (BEB) will be published in June 2017 by Scripture Union and Principes d’interaction avec la Bible will be published in the Fall by Ligue pour la lecture de la Bible. BEB was fermenting in my mind for several years, though I didn’t know […]
Nurturing Bible Engagement
Nurturing Bible engagement … How do we nurture Bible engagement? Are there things we can do to facilitate, encourage and help people grow in the discipline of Bible reading and reflection? Research presented by Rick Hiemstra and Ed Stetzer at the December 2013 Forum of Bible Agencies – North America meeting in New York identified […]
Bible Engagement and Church Engagement: Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down
Bible engagement and church engagement … In “Lost and Found: The Younger Unchurched and the Churches that Reach Them” Ed Stetzer (LifeWay Research) surveyed 1,000 unchurched young adults about the issues of church and spirituality. The study revealed that young adults are more open to issues of Bible engagement than older generations. The Lifeway research […]