LIT

One of the great things about living in Houston is I'm in the hometown of Beth Moore. I didn't know who Beth Moore was until right before I graduated college. She's a Bible study writer and teacher. Just this past weekend, the organization she founded Living Proof ministries has served in all 50 states of the U.S.! That's a huge accomplishment. Last fall and last spring I attended her Bible studies at Houston's First Baptist Church and these weren't your typical small group Bible studies... we had 2-3,000 women of all ages and stages of life together. But due to the church remodeling their sanctuary, Beth couldn't do her usual large Bible study so she decided to have a smaller study with only 250 girls from the ages of 18-25. She chose this group because this was the age she was at when she found a passion for studying scripture and her ministry really took off. So the whole course is more like taking a college class on the Bible. We are learning the basics of the Bible and learning how to study the Word on our own. It's been really fun and totally different from what I'm used to and I've learned SO much!

One lesson we did the entire Bible in one night (yes, it was intense)! She started from Genesis and did a summary of the major points of the Bible in the history of God's people all the way to Revelation. How interesting and easy to see the history of humankind as revealed to us in the Bible. Another lesson we studied the languages of the Bible and how we got from the original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek to the English translation I use today. We are also getting into the proper way to study the Bible (hermeneutics and exegesis). So overall it's been way fun and I hope everyone gets a chance to see how well the Bible stands up to criticism, critiques and even... time! It fills me with confidence that I believe and study the truth - the inspired Word of God. You'd be surprised to find how much more reliable the Bible is than some of the texts we study in school that we don't even second guess as accurate. Definitely a faith booster and this information is available to anyone who cares to search for it. The books we are reading in addition to the study are Mark Driscoll's "A book you'll actually read" series on the OT and NT. Great resource!

The Bible study is called "Lit" based on the Jeremiah 23:29 "Is not my Word like fire?"