I was thinking the other day if, as a Christian, I need to be reading the Bible everyday. Or at all. And by need, I mean, you have to or else you’re clearly not a Christian.
Silly question, really. If you had to do something or forfeit your “Christian”-ness that would defeat the point. But then I wondered, why do people encourage (read: borderline guilt trip / force) you to read the Bible?
I suppose it’s like watching the state of your body. You don’t have to worry about your health. You don’t need to exercise. You don’t need to watch what you eat. None of those things will mean some mysterious power will show up at your door and revoke your right to breathe.
But if you want to live a better life, you probably should want to keep your body healthy, and to do that, you have to do any or all of the above things.
How much you want to do any of those things is of course everyone’s own choice.
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e* // May 6, 2009 at 5:30 pm |
IMHO, as a Christian, you shouldn’t be doing anything out of obligation or “need to” or “have to”, but out of your own desire and love. It’s important to be grounded in the Bible because it’s a powerful weapon, but if reading it doesn’t mean anything to you, do you think it means anything to God?
People shouldn’t be judging you from the outside anyways.