A friend has just started full-time at a Bible college
I must tell you that my personal quiet times and prayer have been more regular than they have been for a long while – how much I need the discipline and encouragement of corporate, community times!
What hope is there for the rest of us if this friend – who was working in an admin role for a large Bible-teaching church and was of the calibre to go to Bible college – was having irregular quiet times and prayer? I wonder what in this friend’s normal everyday life was making regular quiet times difficult. I shall ask.
How will this friend – when in a church leadership or a Bible teaching position – be able to help others have regular times of Bible study and prayer?
Perhaps a better question: how can those of us not at Bible college be encouraging each other in regular prayer and Bible reading. What would have worked for this friend?
December 28, 2009 at 12:30 am |
I have often thought that one of the keys to keeping up a regular quiet time might be accountability. Prayer partners or small groups of men or women who would agree to support and encourage each other. If you know you’re accountable to someone, you are more likely not to allow yourself to slip. I think.
January 29, 2010 at 12:49 pm |
I struggle with this Shosana and Alan. Accountability does help – but what does being accountable to others say about our feeling of accountability to God. Does it go something like this. “Hi Alan please encourage me to talk to God and please ask me to do it, because if you don’t I am more likely to neglect it. Imagine saying that in front of God” ;<)
March 1, 2010 at 4:31 pm |
I suppose that three years at Bible college would ensure that at least the graduate was not a recent convert and likely to become conceited and fall under the same condemnation as the devil.
But then so would three years working at ASDA.
Ad ASDA, fideles.