Nearly there...

I've been doing my own Bible in a Year. It's been great fun, surprisingly. I used the simple system of reading a double page each day. This way I've needed no schemes and cannot get behind - ideal for me (unlike blogging!). Today I got to the end of Hebrews and suddenly it struck me - I'm nearly there. Only a few mini-letters and Revelations to go. What have I learnt? Apart from the serendipity of passage meeting situation, which has been surprisingly rare, I've got a real feel for the huge differences in writing style, and the surprising similarities in content. It encouraged me to do an essay on Paul's letters, which showed (to me at least) that the earliest and the latest had so close a theme as to be inseparable. As I always comment of the critics of the authenticity of the Bible: "Clearly they haven't actually read it". Get reading folks!