One of the challenges most people face when starting out reading the Bible is getting through some of the “extra stuff” like long family histories, etc. Reading the Bible can be confusing and intimidating. That’s why I LOVE The Story by Max Lucado and Randy Frazee.
In The Story, they’ve taken selections from the NIV Bible and put them together to read more like a novel. It’s a GREAT way to start out reading the Bible, or even to read it in a new light if you’ve done it before.
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All the extra diff makes me bored and makes it hard to understand the bible. I think that’s why I don’t read the word as much as I should. By the time I get to the end of the family list I have lost interest and want to close the bible. I know there is a purpose of this, but havent quit figured it out yet. Don’t get me wrong. I love the bible and enjoy reading it and learning how the world was created and how I’m suppose to live my life, but when I read some things, I just don’t get it.
Angel,
There is so much great stuff in the list of names, but for general reading purposes it is simply boring to muster through.I charted the names a few years ago and that was powerful for me to see the connections … that who the Israelites battle against often are their distant relatives from Abraham’s son Ishmael or Lot’s offspring from his two daughters. Keep plowing through or use a resource such as The Story. It has been a wonderful tool in our church.