{"id":444,"date":"2014-11-25T08:09:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T08:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdreformedbaptist.org.au\/?p=444"},"modified":"2014-11-25T08:09:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T08:09:40","slug":"plan-to-read-read-to-a-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdreformedbaptist.org.au\/?p=444","title":{"rendered":"Plan to read; read to a plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bulletin for November<\/p>\n

At the moment I am completely out of my comfort zone when it comes to preparing sermons for the evening service. My usual pattern is to be locked into a series; having made the decision a number of weeks ago to take a break from the shorter catechism I still haven\u2019t decided what to preach through over the summer. In the meantime I have been using the CH Spurgeon method of locating a suitable passage. Once the guests have left on Saturday night I wait for the Holy Spirit to impress upon my heart the text He would have me to use. In all honesty, while it worked for Spurgeon it would never work for me. If I didn\u2019t know what I was going to preach on until Saturday night I would be a mental wreck. I try to settle on the verses by mid-week and these are generally drawn from my own devotional readings or something which has been on my mind.<\/p>\n

With no disrespect to Spurgeon, it seems to me that many Christians are not unlike the great man when it comes to personal Bible reading. They don\u2019t know what they are going to read from one day to the next. The tendency is to read bits and pieces from here and there as time allows. There is nothing wrong with reading portions in a random way, but surely we will gain more from a structured approach with substantial content.<\/p>\n

Many good reading programs can be found online. Alan Young from Warners Bay has developed his own; here is a part of his blurb:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n