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Bible Studies
Over the past few months I have been attempting to get started on a couple of Bible studies - on several forums, including my own. All, with out success. Time and energy have seem to be two of my fleeting commodities. Therefore, I am going to attempt to do the impossible – to do one Bible study on at least ten different forums. Or, perhaps it is 12 or 14 sites. The problem is that even after cutting back on the number of web sites I have been contributing to (some, admittedly, very rarely) I come to the conclusion that I need to cut back even more of the sites I visit. I need to get the number down to four or five. No more than that. Last year I was a member in well over 20 different web communities and a site manager in over half of them.
So, as a test case, I am going to pick up on a new study, one I started back in August but never got very far with, a study on the book of Mathew, chapters 5 through 7. I still have a lot of work to do on this study – it will be a work in progress!
The purpose in posting this study on several boards is to generate as much interest and participation as possible, because I think it is important that Christians know and understand this major teaching of our Savior, with hopefully some additional insights not usually presented in most books focusing on the ”beatitudes” of Mt 5. My goal is to identify those forums that have the most (or best) participation in this study and drop my membership in the remaining forums, in order to get the number of my web sites down to something more manageable.
Except for answering individual questions, I am planning to post exactly the same information on all of the selected sites.
Now, as we get further into the “holiday” season, and with family and friends coming and going, I don’t expect to get very far between now and New Year’s Day week. I will, however take a look at the original introduction post, edit it where necessary and post it on this forum to get folks started thinking about the subject, and, hopefully, to get some people started reading and studying these chapters before the actual study begins.
May God bless this effort – and everyone participating in it.
Shalom Aleichem
Peace be unto you.
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It makes no difference whether you study in the holy language, or in Arabic, or Aramaic [or in Greek or even in English]; it matters only whether it is done with understanding. - Moshe Maimonides.
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