Our family has the privilege of being part of a home Bible study. Our Bible study meets outdoors, in the host's huge back yard, for most of the year. We move inside in inclement weather (which doesn't often happen in our area). This may seem novel to you, a group of believers gathering together in someone's yard (or house), but it has been going on for centuries . . . actually, even in the times immediately following Jesus' death. However, home Bible studies all look different. We know that after Jesus' death, believers met in homes with the doors locked (as when Peter was miraculously freed from jail in Acts, and went to the home of Rhoda. We also know that Dorcas hosted a Bible study in her home in the port town of Joppa. (Acts 9.) Fast forward many centuries, and we find Selina, Countess of Huntingdon hosting Bible studies in her vast stone mansion in the rolling hills of rural England. That is what she is known for . . . helping to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ to the English nobility by inviting preachers who preached Christ, and salvation by grace alone to the nobility in her castle. Whether you study the Bible in a straw hut, in a magnificent stone castle, or in a modest home in the 'burbs, it is a privilege and a joy to do that, and a wonderful way to expand your soul and meet others of the same precious faith.
Comments
Post a Comment