Not Everyone Is Like Me

Sorry to bore any of you who won't be reading the Bible Discussion Blog (we wish you'd join us) with more details, but its new, so I need to clear up some intentions.

My jump-in-with-both-feet attitude, had originally planned on posting a new chapter everyday, as I try to read at least that in my own personal devotions. That has changed for two reasons this evening.

The major reason that changed is my wife. She mentioned that it is likely that other people don't read the Bible as much as I do, and to have the time to have conversations needed with certain chapters would certainly take more than an individual day. Also, many people read blogs while they are at work (hope your boss isn't around) and would then not take part in any weekend discussions. For that reason (talking with my wife) I've decided I'll do two chapters per week. I'll get some kind of schedule figured out for what days I post the new chapters, but don't know that yet.

The second reason is the fruits of a school assignment I had to do today. We had to make 75 observations based on John 3:16. 25 observations coming only from that verse, 25 from the context before, and 25 from the context after. No observations could be "interpretations" we simply had to notice 25 things that are said in John 3:16. The first 10 or so weren't too bad. After that, it took numerous different visits to the text, and looking from many different viewpoints to come up with 25. It was a fruitful experiment in seeing how our interpretive assumptions make the text say things to us that the text doesn't actually say. It was also interesting to see the benefit in looking at the same text at numerous different times, from different viewpoints.

That is how I personally will view the chapters on my other blog. I don't even know that that means I will read a new chapter every day anymore. In fact, for the next couple of days I will likely only be dwelling in John chapter 1. Feel free to join HERE.

One last thing of note. I will be answering some of the questions that get raised on that blog, that are more general spirituality or Bible questions here in this blog, and the ones that pertain to the particular texts of the chapters I'll answer in the comment section of those chapters there.

I've got one in cue for tomorrow already (for here) so look forward to it. For a sneak peak, you can read MSK's comments on John 1 on the Bible Discussion blog.