Yesterday we celebrated our Graduation Sunday. We honored our four graduating seniors with a breakfast, DVD slideshow, and a new Bible.
Rather than buying thinline, no-frill Bibles for these students I took them to a Bible bookstore and walked them through a few translations and editions.
I told them to choose a Bible that they could live with. By that I meant a translation that they can read, one that has tools that can help them understand or navigate through, and one that they can fall in love with.
2 (maybe 3) of these students will be attending Christian universities so I encouraged them to get a study Bible. I know that mine was indispensable during my freshman Bible classes and I wanted to get them something that would be helpful to them. The fourth student chose the new TNIV College Devotional Bible.
Again, I could have just picked up a catalogue or walked into a store and purchased any four Bibles that I saw. Instead, I spent the afternoon with the students presenting options and answering questions so that the students could choose something that they wanted and that they could see themselves using.
Tomorrow, I’ll post about the message I presented.
I would totally support your movement to take them and get them a study bible… the Quest, really blessed me a few years ago. however, i have been recently blessed by a wide margin NIV. and putting my own notes in, highlighting my own chapters and watching what God is saying from day to day, week to week, month to month, has truly been a blessing. My 2c.
Brandon-
I actually bought one of them a Quest. S used that one in college and when it fell apart she went out and bought another one. She loves it.
What you said that you love about you Bible is exactly why I wanted them to choose their own. Good stuff.