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    Bible 360°: Total Engagement With the Word of God
    Bible 360°: Total Engagement With the Word of God
    Bible 360°: Total Engagement With the Word of God
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    Bible 360°: Total Engagement With the Word of God

    By Daniel Lim and Roy L. Peterson

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    God’s Word gives life, but how do we partake of all it offers? Discover ten profound and highly practical ways to engage with God in the Bible, using every part of your being as you read it, meditate on it, study it, live it, write it, pray it, sing it, proclaim it, teach it, and remember it.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateDec 28, 2016
    ISBN9781938060380
    Bible 360°: Total Engagement With the Word of God

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      Bible 360° - Daniel Lim

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      The Word of Eternal Life

      Simon Peter answered Him, "Lord, to whom shall we go?

      You have the words of eternal life."

      John 6:68

      The Holy Scripture was not always intelligible to me as a child. In my early years of Scripture engagement, I faced both linguistic and hermeneutic barriers. In my late teens, after I surrendered my life to follow Jesus, I tried to read the Bible, but the only copies I could access were the King James Version (KJV) and the Revised Standard Version (RSV) from a local Baptist church. As English was not my first language, this made it especially difficult for me to understand and to engage with the Bible.

      Finally, I decided to explore a pictorial Bible storybook. I found a cheap paperback book with three hundred sixty-five Bible stories. I began to read the narrative of the Bible. I started to enjoy it as it was written in simple English and in a genre of literature comprehensible to me. I completed the reading of the Old and New Testaments in about three months instead of three hundred sixty-five days. I found the stories in this paperback, chronological narrative very engaging. When I eventually read the RSV and KJV Bibles again, they made more sense to me, as I now had the broader narrative of the Bible in the back of my mind. When my son turned five, I decided to get him the newly published Action Bible. I watched him devour the picture book and become familiar with major Bible characters and the storyline.

      As a person who was educated with a secular atheistic curriculum and grew up in a polytheistic worldview, I find the revelation of the Holy Scripture very appealing. The fact that there is an intelligent origin for existence and that life is held together by the Word of His power not only makes sense to me, but gives me purpose that transcends my brief, earthly, temporal existence. The revelation of the love of God, which necessitates His consistent attributes of mercy, justice, and righteousness, provides a clear moral compass and framework for life individually and corporately. It also instills a strong sense of stewardship pertaining to our biosphere and my role as a global citizen. Science and history make sense to me from such scriptural revelation. Our temporal-eternal existence makes sense to me, as well as the anthropocentric reality of our world.

      Since my college years, reading, writing, teaching, preaching, praying, singing, and living the Bible have been a delight to my soul. The Word of God has guided me, strengthened me, comforted me, corrected me, and trained me for righteousness. In the last two decades, I have also witnessed the power of God’s Word to transform many lives across the nations of the earth. Indeed, like the apostle Peter once exclaimed, Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.¹

      While His Word is precious to me, there have been moments when my passion for God’s Word waned, and the Lord was gracious to use other godly believers and divinely orchestrated circumstances to draw me back. Whenever I hit a season of dryness in the Word of God, I usually continue in my scheduled reading plan in a mechanical way. I also spend additional time in the Psalms. The inspired Scripture in Psalms almost never fails to open my heart to the Lord, especially when I am in a deep valley of despair and disillusionment. The precious Word of eternal life we need for every life season is found in the Holy Bible.

      In this book, I will use phrases such as the Word of God, God’s Word, the Bible, and the Scripture interchangeably. I am under the conviction the Bible in its original manuscript is inerrant, infallible, and authoritative to all matters pertaining to life and godliness. In the context of this book, the Bible covers all sixty-six books of the Protestant canon, and essentially includes thirty-nine Old Testament books established in the Hebrew canon but arranged according to the Septuagint division. I believe the entire Bible, every jot and tittle in its original manuscript, is the inspired Word of God. I understand some within scholarly and various Christian traditions do not share my conviction, but like Peter of old, I have been fascinated by Christ’s words of eternal life and His attitude toward the Law and Prophets.²

      This fundamental premise defines my zeal in total engagement with the Bible. I desire to engage with the Bible with every possible part of my being, i.e., my mind, my heart, my soul, and my strength. The content in this book is at best introductory in nature. It is my prayer that readers of this book will be inspired to engage with the Bible and inspire others to engage with the Bible. It is also my prayer the Lord will release much grace to this generation as we labor to see a billion souls worldwide engage with the Bible daily, including one hundred million souls in America. Ending Bible poverty in our generation is an attainable goal for a generation consumed with the vision of proliferating Bible engagement.

      1    John 6:68

      2    John 6:68–69, But Simon Peter answered Him, ‘Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. Also we have come to believe and know that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.’

      Next Steps to Vibrant Life!

      1. The Word of God has enriched my life in Christ in many ways. How has the Bible enriched your life?

      2. Every morning I wake up with the desire to know Him more and to make Him known to others. What is the main motivation that draws you to the Holy Bible?

      3. There were days when I had no desire to touch the Holy Bible. What are some factors which discouraged you from reading or engaging with the Bible?

      It usually takes me a little while to find ways to overcome my occasional lack of interest in the Bible. Lack of communion with Christ in His Word is tormenting to me, so I always find a way back to Bible engagement. I pray this book will help you discover ways to enjoy your Bible even more.

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      Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of the people. And they said, All that the LORD has said we will do, and be obedient.

      Exodus 24:7

      In 2011, I met a spiritual man of prayer from Egypt who has strong fervor for the gospel. In our casual conversation, he shared with me about a friend who had recently challenged him to read through his Bible in ninety hours. He had been intrigued by that proposal and had begun to set aside one hour a day for the next ninety days to read through his Arabic Bible from Genesis to Revelation. He was excited that he had accomplished this amazing and encouraging feat. Without his realization, he was sowing a seed of faith into my heart, as I recognized many in the Western world do not read through our Bibles because we subtly doubt it can be done systematically. Often we give up on our New Year’s resolution after several months of attempting to read the Bible consistently. I realized breaking the unbelief and mental barrier in Bible reading is crucial to help believers read through the entire Bible for the first time.

      I decided to gather a group of students at the International House Prayer University to attempt to read through the Bible in seventy-two hours, in an initiative I affectionately dubbed a Bible Mania Marathon. Students were organized into pairs of Bible readers, with each pair reading the scripture text aloud for ten minutes before handing it over to another pair of readers. About fifty faculty members and students participated in this three-day Bible Mania Marathon. Many of them stayed in the room more than eight hours daily. Some were literally camping in the room for three days, merely taking short breaks for refreshment. The reading experience was rather mechanical and unexciting. Reading through the books of Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy was particularly difficult, but we persevered as we needed to collectively experience the fact that if we really read the English Bible non-stop at a leisurely pace, we can read it through within seventy-two hours.

      I vividly remember I had to preach at a Saturday evening service at Forerunner Christian Fellowship, thus I left the room about 4:30 p.m. to prepare for the service. I decided to drop in to see the Bible readers on the way to the service. When I got in the room at 5:45 p.m., I witnessed many of them lying on the floor, visibly touched by the Spirit of God. The pair of Bible readers on the podium had stopped reading, so I asked them why had they stopped. The Bible readers told me the reading was mechanical and boring until they started reading the forty-seventh chapter of the book of Ezekiel. At that time, many people in the room were gripped by a seemingly tangible presence and power of the Holy Spirit. Consequently, they could not continue reading.

      I recognized the Lord was honoring our devotion in reading and proclaiming His Word, and He was obviously highlighting the text in Ezekiel 47. I remember exclaiming, Let us read Ezekiel 47, seven times. The Bible readers obliged. After about five minutes, I left the room and proceeded to the church service. On Sunday morning, I had

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