Community Bible Reading

Purpose

To establish and maintain a culture throughout Lakeland in which every Christian develops the heart for and habit of seeking God through His Word and seeking, according to His Word and in community, a mind and heart transformed to the image of Christ.

Question 157 from the Larger Catechism: How is the Word of God to be read?

Answer: The Holy Scriptures are to be read with a high and reverent esteem of them; with a firm persuasion that they are the very Word of God, and that he only can enable us to understand them; with desire to know, believe, and obey the will of God revealed in them; with diligence, and attention to the matter and scope of them; with meditation, application, self-denial, and prayer.