Join us in reading The Story--the Bible in  chronological order. Below is the link to the website, with the blog for the first week.

http://www.biblechurch.org/chbcjom/the-story.html

the week of January 22

This is a great privilege to join you in this quest to read through the Bible in 31 weeks!

A few things you should know. There are thought questions available for each chapter at the end of the book, beginning at page 473. There are character descriptions beginning at page 489. The Bible passages referenced in each chapter are on 495-6. And a timeline is found from xi to xv and at the beginning of each chapter. These tools are helpful to give us historical context.

Each week I will write comments and create further questions to sharpen your thinking. Here we go...

Page 1... In the beginning God... The most important thing is that God did the creating. The process is important, the timing is less important. Why is it that Christians bicker about whether the time to create took 7 days or billions of years? May we agree to disagree over this issue?

Page 2... God made animal life according to its own kind. Then He made Adam and Eve in His Own Image. In what way are people after God's Own Kind?

Pages 2 & 3... After God finished 'Days 1-5' He said each 'was good'. After finishing 'Day 6', which included His creating mankind, He rested and said it 'was very good'. What is the significance of this?

Page 4... God wanted Adam & Eve to have transparent relationships, with God and each other. What was the result of the broken trust between the humans and between them and God?

Page 5... It is sad that God had made mankind in His own image but they wanted to be like God on their own, that is equal to God. How do we currently do the same thing?

Page 5... God knew where Adam and Eve were hiding. But He still called out to them, 'Where are you?'. What does this tell us about the pursuant character of God?

Pages 9-11... How is Noah's redemptive story a foretaste of our salvation in Christ?See 1 Peter 3:18-22.
Bonus reading: Read Psalm 104 and Psalm 8.