Revelation 6 December 15, 2013
We are in the final stretch of our Bible reading journey. There are only 16 days left in the 2013. I hope you have discovered the great value of reading God's word this year. In our passage today, when the fifth seal was opened, John saw the souls of those who had been martyred because of the WORD of GOD and the testimony they had maintained. There is a correlation between knowing the WORD of God and maintaining your testimony.
In the book, Reveal: Where are You?, Greg Hawkins and Cally Parkinson interviewed eleven thousand church attenders and gathered 2.6 million data points for their three-year study. The goal of this survey was to discover the most important factor for a person to grow spiritually. They had assumed that the more people are involved in the church, the closer they grow to Christ. They had assumed that Sunday morning attendance was the key to spiritual growth.
So what do you think they found was mentioned as an influence twice as much as any other practice?
Reading the Bible was by far the most important commitment for growing as a Christ follower. All spiritual growth is based on the foundation of spending time in God's Word. There is nothing that can come close to the holy habit of reading for keeping your heart right with God.
The study also found that more than twenty-five percent of those surveyed described themselves as spiritually "stalled."If you want to jump start your spiritual life, there is no better place than spending time with God each day reading His Word.
I hope you will join us in 2014 as we continue to grow in our knowledge of God through His Word.
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