Are you ready for this ambitious Bible reading plan?

Simply in time for America’s 250th anniversary, Bunni Kilos and the crew at Christian Engaged are gearing up for an enormous Scripture-based occasion this spring: “America Reads the Bible.”

I spoke with Bunni Kilos for a radio phase about this upcoming occasion. She informed our listeners:

“On April 18-25, we’re going to be in Washington, D.C. We’re going to have 475 of our national leaders reading the Bible from Genesis to Revelation over the course of seven days.”

These leaders will embody actress Candace Cameron Bure, who mentioned that the Bible has modified her life. She informed Newsmax final fall: “To come together for such a time as this — to celebrate America’s 250th birthday and remind ourselves what this country was built upon — to read the Bible together is going to be an incredible event.”

Bunni mentioned, first would be the opening ceremony on April 18 on the Museum of the Bible: “Then we start from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. for seven full days as they read through the whole Bible. … It will be epic.” The model to be learn is The King James Model Simple Learn.

Their web site, americareadsthebible.com, states that the general aim of that is “reigniting America’s spiritual foundation as we celebrate 250 years of freedom.”

The web site provides: “Just as Ezra read the Word aloud to the people of Israel (Nehemiah 8:1–3), awakening revival and repentance, inspiring them to rebuild the temple, and working with Nehemiah to mobilize the people to rebuild Jerusalem’s walls, America Reads the Bible is a sacred opportunity to call our nation back to its spiritual foundations.”

So, why all of the fuss concerning the Bible and America’s upcoming birthday? Nicely, the Bible performed a key function in shaping America.

Take into account among the observations of presidents on the Scriptures:

• John Adams famous: “The Bible contains the most profound philosophy, the most perfect morality, and the most refined policy that ever was conceived upon Earth.”
• When Thomas Jefferson wrote the constitution for a church he cofounded in 1777, he said, “We the subscribers … [are] desirous of encouraging and supporting the Calvinistical Reformed Church, and of deriving to ourselves, through the ministry of its teachers, the benefits of Gospel knowledge and … explaining the holy scriptures.”
• Andrew Jackson mentioned that the Bible is “the rock upon which our republic was founded.”
• Abraham Lincoln mentioned of the Bible: “In regard to this Great Book, ‘I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book. But for it, we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man’s welfare, here and hereafter, are to be found portrayed in it.’”
• Calvin Coolidge famous: “The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.”
• Franklin D. Roosevelt had miniature Bibles (New Testaments or Parts of the Previous Testomony for Jewish troopers) distributed to our army throughout World Conflict II. I’ve a replica of such a holy e book from my dad. The thirty second president wrote within the Foreword of those pocket Bibles: “As Commander-in-Chief, I take pleasure in commending the reading of the Bible to all who serve in the armed forces of the United States. … Throughout the centuries, men of many faiths and diverse origins have found in the Sacred Book words of wisdom, counsel and inspiration.”
• Ronald Reagan mentioned of the Bible: “I encourage all citizens, each in his or her own way, to reexamine and rediscover its priceless and timeless message.”

Hopefully, the herculean efforts of Bunni Kilos and the entire crew at Christians Engaged to stage this huge Bible read-through will assist Individuals at giant to re-engage with the Bible, the supply of our freedoms.