Bible in 90 Days/ Blogging thru the Bible in 90 Days

A few years ago I read through the Bible, cover to cover, in 90 days… Yes, the whole thing. (Okay, I’ll admit it. My first pass took 97 days, but I’ve done it in 90, and helped many others do it in 90, since then!)

And I would not have done it, had it not been for Ted Cooper and his Bible in 90 Days ministry.

The experience changed me. It enabled me to finally understand the relationship with Christ I had been growing over the years. I felt like finally I was hearing Him clearly and finally I felt that He must be hearing me, too.

Many questions I had were answered… and those questions that weren’t, lost their importance.

Reading the Bible in its entirety changed me, and reading it in 90 days enabled me to get an excellent overall perspective and see just how beautifully every piece fit together.

And reading it in a group of accountability partners helped me to keep going when life seemed to get in the way.

I am so thankful for Ted Cooper and his desire to read the Bible cover to cover, because had it not been for him, I might still be wishing I would read the entire bible. And I might still be struggling with so many questions.

Let me back up a bit and give a glimpse of that story…

Several years ago Ted Cooper, who is now a friend of mine, was happily Agnostic. But then his kids started asking questions. And he started to wonder. And he wanted to just put the whole thing to rest. So he decided to find the quickest, easiest way to find the answers to his questions and decided to read the whole Bible, cover to cover. He found an NIV thinline (fewest footnotes), counted the pages and divided by about 3 months. And off he read. And half-way through the Old Testament he became a Christian.

I’m sure you can imagine that this experience was life-changing for him in more ways than one. He quit his job and made it his mission to help others also read the Bible in 90 days.

He assembled study notes to go along with the reading, week-by-week, and convinced someone at his church to prepare a weekly discussion applicable to what the reading would be week to week. And he asked if the church where he had attended for years would allow the curriculum to be offered. And, thus, Bible in 90 Days, the ministry was born.

I was fortunate to go through one of the classes just before I moved out to the suburbs… and brought the curriculum with me to my next church. Since then, Zondervan has picked up the program and is publishing the curriculum and it is used in about 250 churches nationwide.

There have been small groups, large groups, church-wide groups and even community reading groups. And in January 2010, I launched an internet reading group with the promotional help of 11 other bloggers. (You can call us the 12 blogging tribes. :) )

More than 200 readers began reading the Bible together January 1, checking in on MomsToolbox.com as well as other blogs and encouraging each other through posts, comments and messages on Twitter.

We ‘meet’ weekly on Monday nights from 8-9 CST to discuss our reading and encourage each other on Twitter using the hashtag #B90Days.

It has been truly amazing to connect with other Bible readers all over the world who are going through this journey together via an online community. I love that I am cheering on readers daily, and praying for them, whom I might never had had the chance to meet had it not been for the community of bloggers sharing the challenge and inviting so many to join in.

If you missed the January 1 start date, but would like to join in, please click over to the Bible in 90 Days ministry page to see if there is a new group forming near you anytime soon. Or stay tuned here. The next MomsToolbox/ Blogging thru the Bible in 90 Days challenge will begin July 1.

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