Why I'm Doing 12 Bible Reading Challenges in 2023 (And What the First One Is)
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- čas přidán 5. 07. 2024
- Most Christians set a goal of reading the Bible in a year. It's not bad but there are some reasons why it can be a guilt inducing experience. So this year I'm trying something different. I'm attempting a selection of different 30-day Bible reading challenges across the year.
Watch the video to find out why and what the first challenge is.
00:00 Intro
00:14 Why do the challenges?
01:40 What the 12 challenges will be?
02:49 What's the first challenge?
03:05 Join me!
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Sounds amazing
Thanks cat! It’s definitely been a challenge so far!
Just found the channel. Looks great and subscribed. Hi from Shanghai. 😊
Thanks from Krakow!
Chris this is quite a challenge to read thru in 7 days. The average reading time of the entire Bible is 75 hours, 10-11 hours a day would be really hard, not just to focus that many hours but with other obligations you know like getting a paycheck, preparing meals, walking the dogs, sleep! Ill be interested to see your results for sure, maybe there is a trick I missed. My best time has been 45 days, 30 minutes before heading to work, 60 minutes in the evening
I'm sure you won't be surprised, I'm behind already and I'm two days in! I'll explain more in my video sum up but I picked the 7 days as I saw it in the now defunct Bible Study Magazine website and thought "If It takes me twice as long and miss half the days I'll still finish in 30 days which would still be amazing."
30 mins pre work and 60 in the evening sounds far more manageable!
Hey Chris.... Wonderful challenge!
I'd love that you can include in the challenges, some related to Chat GPT. If you research on Chat GPT, this is going to be the next best thing after zettelkasten
Interesting. I've been playing (A LOT) with ChatGPT and have used some other AI writing tools in the past too. In fact just today I used it to get an answer to a question that Google search totally failed at (although the answer I got was actually out of date but still gave me enough to go forward). Have you seen the tools in readwise reader? They seam like the most interesting applications of AI for continuous learning and zettlekasten systems. I saw someone build a digital zettlekasten using GTP-3 to explore a topic but that seams like a dangerous direction. A major part is engaging with the topic and taking the time to understand an idea so you can describe as well as identify the connections yourself. Letting AI do that seems like you'd fail to actually understand the ideas you talk about. BUT maybe it could help discover ideas to investigate... (I have no idea how this might apply to a bible reading challenge but that doesn't mean there isn't an idea in there!)
I can't wait to hear how this goes. I am especially interested in hearing how you get on with reading the same book over and over again. Many years ago, when I started my walk with the Lord, I read the gospel according to John over and over again. It was a wonderful experience, and one that helped me understand so much more about Jesus as the Son of man, and as God. Well in the days between Christmas and the new year, I decided to try and read all the books of the NT each day for 30 days. Of course dividing the longer ones into more reasonable sections.
I absolutely adore John's Gospel. I'm really debating which book to focus on for 30 days but John's are high on my list. I'm tempted to go for something shorter rather than longer because it might multiply the effect of the re-readings, then again I can't imagine reading Philemon or Jude again and again...and again. etc.
I love the challenge of the NT in 30 days, it's a stretch but not a ridiculous one.
I absolutely adore John's Gospel. I'm really debating which book to focus on for 30 days but John's are high on my list. I'm tempted to go for something shorter rather than longer because it might multiply the effect of the re-readings, then again I can't imagine reading Philemon or Jude again and again...and again. etc.
I love the challenge of the NT in 30 days, it's a stretch but not a ridiculous one.
Hi, Chris! Thank you for your work here online. We are all so blessed by your content. I started to follow you because I'm interested in Obsidian Zettelkasten and Logos. Now, what do you think about note-taking in Bible study? Because of the Zettelkasten philosophy workflow, I'm willing to annotate everything in Obsidian. But, as I use Logos to study a Bible text, I don't know which software is the best platform to cultivate. Have you thoughts on that?
Hi Abner. This is the debate I've been going through for the last year :D (and part of the reason I didn't make as many videos last year.) I believe either path can work and it probably depends on your use case. If you are mostly taking non bible study notes and more notes on other topics (with the occasional looking of a study bible etc) then obsidian and Zettlekasten are probably best. But if you are spending most of your time writing sermons or academic papers and exclusively look at the bible and Christian books, you would probably be best served using logos. You wouldn't be able to do Zettlekasten proper, but you'd gain even faster verse entry and the way logos works with highlights is great.
If you are somewhere in the middle (like me) then you either need to duplicate your notes (I've tried this and I hate the data entry) or come up with some separation. My current path is research, highlights, / other people's thoughts in Logos, and putting my own notes and summaries in Obsidian with final output in logos sermon builder.
I hope that helps and I hope to share a video soon on this very topic once I feel that I'm settled.
@@chrisjwilson Excellent! I preach regularly, but I'm also studying Philosophy at University. So, my Zettelkasten has many subjects. It's awesome to read about your workflow. Thank you so much! Greetings from Brazil 🤩