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.

North Charleston Church of Christ

Charleston, South Carolina