Seagoe embraces Community Bible Reading experience
We in Seagoe Parish are delighted that 180 copies of the Books of the Bible by Biblica have been requested by parishioners as they engage in an imaginative opportunity to read through the New Testament in 8 weeks with a unique reading plan.
The books are arranged in ‘book form’ without the addition of the chapter numbers, verse numbers, headings etc that are to found in ‘normal’ Bibles. In addition the books have been reordered according to the widely recognised order of chronological writing.
In addition to everyone reading the same pages each day, people are meeting in together once a week to discuss their reading. Groups run every evening at 8.00 pm in Seagoe, with an additional group meeting one evening a week in Killicomaine and an additional morning group.
The reading plan started running in the first week in February and those who have met in the groups so far have found the experience very encouraging and helpful.
It is great to think that in 8 weeks’ time so many people will not only have read through the entire New Testament together but will have taken the opportunity to discuss it together.
Particular encouragements are that the leaders of the CLB have established their own reading group, as has the Youth Fellowship. In addition one of your younger parishioners has organised a group of 10 of his friends to read together and to meet weekly with him as reading group leader!!
May the Lord reveal more of His Word to us through this process and give us the grace to receive and respond to what He reveals to us.
With thanks to Revd Canon Terence Cadden, rector of Seagoe.