As you may have read in the January 2014 edition of the Broadcaster, we are inviting members and friends of Westy Pres to join us in reading the entire Bible in 2014.
As Julie Andrews sings in the Sound of Music, "Let's start from the very beginning." For the first week in 2014, let's read the following texts on Creation:
Genesis 1:1-2:4a
Genesis 2:4b-3
Job 38-41
Psalm 8
Psalm 104
Proverbs 8:22-31
For each text, ask yourself the following four questions:
1) What does this text say about God the creator?
2) What does this text say about the creation itself?
3) What does this text say about humanity?
4) What does this text say about humanity's response to God the creator?
Note that we've included six different texts on creation and not just the usual Genesis, chapter one. Each of these texts will help us answer the four questions in slightly different ways.
One advantage of committing to read through the entire Bible in a year is that it can give us a new appreciation for the witness of the entirety of scripture, and not just the favored passages that we go to again and again.
Please feel free to use the comments section of the blog to post questions or thoughts about each passage.
