My hope is that we, as God’s gathered people, grow in a rich love and dependence upon the word of God – because through his word, empowered by his Spirit, God does his work even now.

So I hope grow to encourage each other constantly in reading and hearing God’s word together. That we become a community where reading the bible together when we meet, is just a natural thing we do. The bible is always open, not just for the down hearted, or the new Christian, but in our everyday dealings with each other. Husband and wives; parents and children; friends; the old and the young, are all reading the word of God and growing in their relationship with God together. I picture, within our church, a growing chaotic web of personal relationships of prayer and Bible reading – more of a movement than a program.

It’s an exciting thought!

But like forming many good habits, at first we need to decide and be deliberate.

That is why we are doing the Spring Challenge. Our hope is that we can make reading the bible with each other as easy and accessible as possible.

Last year there were many stories of people taking the opportunity to read the bible together. Why don’t you take it up this year, or find someone you haven’t read the bible with yet.

The Challenge is simple.

Find someone you haven’t yet read the bible with.

Choose to meet together 6 times for ½ hr through Spring.

If you are unsure what you would read or how you would read the bible with someone for ½ hr., we are going to go through it on Sunday 17th August at 3pm.