Can You Spare Twenty Minutes?
Recently, I received a letter with this statement:
“Twenty four years in the first grade – that is how long it would take to
pass if public schools met only as often as Sunday Bible School and if no
classes were missed.”
Certainly, this is a challenging statement. Suppose
you came to Bible School only half the time. That would be the equivalent
of forty-eight years in the first grade. At this rate you can see why we
have so much Bible ignorance in the world today. There was a time when
members of the Lord’s church were know as people who really knew the Book,
but we feel that day has passed for many. We need to re-emphasize the
importance of reading. A few years ago I read that if a person spent
twenty minutes a day o a given subject for a period of twenty years, he
could be an authority in that field. If that is true, then think what
twenty minutes a day over twenty years means in Bible knowledge.
We live in an age of education, even retired people
return to collage and many of the younger ones are still in college at age
30. With all the emphasize on education, we need to emphasize Bible
knowledge. We spend a great portion of out lives preparing for a
profession or vocation in this world, which at best will be less than one
century and spend so little time in preparing to live for eternity.
Via North
Charleston Church of Christ
Charleston,
South Carolina
