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When life gets busy and schedules get chaotic, does Bible reading sometimes feel like another thing you’ve got to get done? It’s really easy for reading the Bible to just become part of a checklist, but when we’re rushing to “get it done and checked off the list,” we’re not really creating moments for God’s Word to speak to our hearts and go deep in our lives.
Michael Gunnin from Walk Thru the Bible gives us 4 questions to ask ourselves to create moments of application for God’s Word to sink into our hearts and lives. We’re not talking about in-depth Bible study here, but how to move from getting our daily reading done to having it make an impact in our lives.
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The Impact of One Life
Never underestimate the impact of one well-equipped Bible teacher! His one life makes a difference.
Every year, Walk Thru the Bible trains and equips nearly 17,000 pastors and Bible teachers in the world’s most under-resourced regions. In Africa, Asia, and Latin America, more than 80 percent of them have never received any formal training in leadership or theology. They do not have access to resources, and many in their congregations may not even have a Bible. A severe shortage of training opportunities and resources, coupled with the exponential growth of Christianity in the Global South, has created an urgent and growing need.
As Walk Thru the Bible fills this need through providing equipping and resourcing opportunities, we witness how God can use one life to ignite passion for His Word in entire regions.
In rural Kenya, Pastor Christopher Bera is one of those individuals who is making an enormous impact. Kenya is home to more than 52 million people, and is the 48th largest country in the world by land area. As Pastor Bera travels to his churches, in rural areas and in places like Mombasa, he teaches Walk Thru the Bible’s Old and New Testament live events to his people.
“When I was trained by Walk Thru the Bible, I learned so much. I began implementing what I learned from the training in my churches and in my ministry,” he said. “Walk Thru the Bible’s training has been a wonderful resource for me and my churches. The Old and New Testament overview events have simplified the study of the Bible and all of our leaders understand it better. Many of these are pastors who have never received any formal biblical training. Now they can teach it to their people.”
“When I was trained by Walk Thru the Bible, I learned so much. I began implementing what I learned from the training in my churches and in my ministry,” he said. “Walk Thru the Bible’s training has been a wonderful resource for me and my life & churches. The Old and New Testament overview events have simplified the study of the Bible and all of our leaders understand it better. Many of these are pastors who have never received any formal biblical training. Now they can teach it to their people.”
He explains that by using Walk Thru the Bible training and materials, he has grown the leadership team in one area to more than 50 leaders, and about 30 of those leaders are actively involved in teaching in the churches and schools in their community. “This team is reaching more than 10,000 students and others every term,” he said.
He and his team have also planted a church in Kamasielo, a rural area in western Kenya. “This church started as a weekly meeting to discuss Walk Thru the Old Testament and Walk Thru the New Testament,” said Chris. “After a little while, the meeting attracted so many people from the area that they formed a church. By using Walk Thru the Bible teaching, that church has grown to 60 members.”
In Pastor Bera’s experience, Walk Thru the Bible offers a unique opportunity. He recently traveled to Mombasa to visit his churches there. He introduced the Walk Thru the Bible overview event to some of those small, home churches, which are also located in an area with many Muslims. “Walk Thru is an easy way to introduce people to the Bible, to open the church to people of other faiths,” he said. “We aren’t allowed to do a crusade or a revival in Mombasa, but we can teach this material. Just in that one area, we can reach 2,000 people a year.”
By equipping Pastor Bera, one life, with high-quality biblical resources, Walk Thru the Bible is directly making a difference in countless lives in Kenya. He has a dream that in ten years, his team can reach at least 100,000 people in Kenya with Walk Thru the Bible. “When you teach Walk Thru,” he said, “it is like pouring oil into the Indian Ocean because it just goes, very quickly, to reach other places. Kenya will be different because of Walk Thru resources. People are being taught the Bible with true doctrine and in a very easy to understand way. They are becoming grounded in the Word of God.”
When one life has the resources they need to teach the Bible and to teach others to do the same, there’s no limit to the harvest their ministry will yield!