My church does this thing... It's a really great thing actually. It's a Bible reading plan. It encourages each member to read one chapter of the Bible per day, every day. It's called SOAP. SOAP stands for Scripture, Observation, Application, Prayer. If you want more info, or to follow along, you can find everything you might need here.
My church is doing this other thing. It's also a really great thing. They're calling it the "The 10 Experiment." It's not online as of yet, but the basic gist is that tithing should be more than just giving 10% of our money. So we're putting aside the first fruits of our year as well. The first five weeks of 2010 we're giving to God. (That's about 10% of the year.) So we've all been challenged to find something we can do for this first five weeks of the year to in some way give the time to God.
I've decided to blog my SOAP. I'll mostly just be posting my observations and applications, with links to Scripture. Prayer is a bit more private for me, so that won't be posted.
This is not really for the readers' sake. This is mostly just for me. So don't be surprised if I don't always explain everything. And don't expect it to be pearls of wisdom every day. Some days it may be just a simple recounting of scripture and some days it may be deeper.
But I'm committing to doing it every day. At least for the next five weeks. After that, who knows.
My church is doing this other thing. It's also a really great thing. They're calling it the "The 10 Experiment." It's not online as of yet, but the basic gist is that tithing should be more than just giving 10% of our money. So we're putting aside the first fruits of our year as well. The first five weeks of 2010 we're giving to God. (That's about 10% of the year.) So we've all been challenged to find something we can do for this first five weeks of the year to in some way give the time to God.
I've decided to blog my SOAP. I'll mostly just be posting my observations and applications, with links to Scripture. Prayer is a bit more private for me, so that won't be posted.
This is not really for the readers' sake. This is mostly just for me. So don't be surprised if I don't always explain everything. And don't expect it to be pearls of wisdom every day. Some days it may be just a simple recounting of scripture and some days it may be deeper.
But I'm committing to doing it every day. At least for the next five weeks. After that, who knows.
I have been really enjoying following along with your SOAP blog. What a great idea.
ReplyDeleteI just shared it with the fans at the "sound of a soft breath" Facebook page. I hope you don't mind.
Check it out @ http://www.facebook.com/bible.devotions
peace & grace in Christ,
brad
Absolutely! Thanks, and glad you're enjoying my SOAP!
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