To those who intended to blog but ran out of courage, focus or energy. Chin up. The point of WORD Up is to set fairly difficult challenges so that we are motivated to block off time to achieve it together. Set up your own more manageable challenge and gather a group of friends to do it with you at another time.
If you were just a random reader, you could be more. You could challenge your friends to read Old Testament books which they have never read before in community and work out how to apply the bible to their lives today. You could use the material on this blog to do challenges of your own over a month/ weekend away. You could use the material and challenge your group on Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, What's app and Youtube. Remember the more the format or medium of material is reused, retwittered and reworked to fit the lifestyle of your group the better. However, the principles of good biblical interpretation and the content of the bible (whichever version you use) must remain the same.
Engage with the text and let the words point you to fresh insights into what God is saying to you as a group. Ask questions, research answers and record what you learn....this interpretative community is what will make what you are doing different from other efforts to put the bible online using social media like these ones on Twitter. Wrestling with biblical text is engaging with an author who chooses who reveal Himself, there is a sense of the amazing in the experience. The Old Testament contains some of the most puzzling but revealing stories about God's relationship with his people. Seeking to know God more through His revealed works is one of the most exciting adventure of life.
:) Until next summer.
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