Category: Making Disciples

Abiding with little and much

Abiding in Christ. It’s how we live and grow as believers. How we stay rooted. And fruitful.

My parents have taught me by example how to abide in Christ through prayer and the Word. In little and in much.

But what happens when the props are gone? No church down the street or across town. No familiar worship gathering in the heart language.

What happens when you don’t have a list of small group Bible studies to choose from. No Bible study workbooks for purchase.

And the internet is unreliable. Spotty. Occasional.

Perhaps you’ve been there. Or you are there.

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom…” (Proverbs 9:10). I was a child with childlike faith, starting to read my new red Bible on my own.

And Proverbs was my favorite.

Proverbs 9:10

“I don’t read the Old Testament,” she said. “I don’t like it. It’s too bloody.” She cited the blood of battle and sacrifice.

Her words followed my announcement that our small group would be studying passages in the Old Testament.

And I knew what she was talking about. You don’t have to read very far before there it is again.

Blood and sacrifice.