My 90 Day Challenge

I am challenging myself to read through the entire Bible in 90 days. Each day I will be reading 12-18 pages to complete this task.

You may be asking yourself why I am doing this. That is a very valid question.

You see... I am a pastor. And unfortunately, I have never read through the entire Bible. I have read the Bible. I have at different times read different parts of the Bible.

BUT... I have never read from one cover to the other cover. I have been convicted lately that how can I teach teens and children to read the whole Bible, when in fact I have not read it straight through.

This thinking first started about a month ago when I got a curriculum magazine in the mail from Zondervan. There was a new, popular curriculum that was called read through the Bible in 90 Days.

It is supposed to be this whole, church challenge. I thought that it would be something interesting to do.

This weekend, I spent hours and hours in airports and on airplanes and read through one of my all-time favorite books, Blue Like Jazz. (If you've never read the book, seriously it is really good)

And Donald Miller was talking about something that had to do with reading the Bible. He was talking about how he would get into reading the Bible, but then for days completely forget about it. And how he had never read through the whole thing. And I thought... wow, that's exactly what I do.

Not that I don't read my Bible everyday, but it's hard for me to read "for me" when I use the Bible 4 or 5 hours a day to read "for teens." And there are many days where my Bible just becomes a text book which I teach out of.

So, this 90 day challenge is for me. It is to bring me into a closer relationship with God. It's not for you. It's not to show how good of a Christian that I am. It is 100% for my personal relationship with the Creator of the Universe.

So... you ask, why am I blogging this? Simple. Accountability. I need it. I need people encouraging me. I need people kicking me in the butt.

So, I am asking you to comment on what I write. I am asking for your opinions. I am asking you to kick me in the butt if I don't post someday. Maybe I read and didn't post. Maybe I just didn't read. Either way... call me out on it.

So there it is... why am I reading the Bible in 90 Days? Because I need to. God is telling me to. And I am trying to say yes.