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Posted At: 12:02am by FemLem1
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At the start of each semester, this little guy can be found on the streets of many college campuses across the nation:
The Gideons. The little old men in their sunday best, handing out New Testament Bibles with Psalms and Proverbs. I'm not meaning to bash, by any means, but they came into discussion yesterday, and, as i did not have an answer, I thought I might ask it here.
I said something yesterday about the Gideons and the pocket NT Bibles to a freind who asked "Why not the Old Testament?" I said I didn't know, but it got me to thinking: Why hand out a Bible without the Old Testament in it? So today, as I was walking to class, I passed the same men. But today, I stopped to talk.
"Why just the New Testament? Why not the Old Testament as well?"
The first man I talked to gave me an honest answer. "That's a good question..." and basically told me he didn't know.
And then the second man came over, and once again, I asked him my question. "Well, this is the word of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ."
"Yes, I understand that," I told him. "But isn't the Old Testament important as well?"
Then he told me about how the NT was all about salvation and how they "bring in" 4 times as many people with that little green book (but didn't tell me compared to what), while trying to shove the book in my hand, at which point I decided I should go to class.
What does this say, to just give the NT without the OT? Without it, the reader is not reading about creation, or the fall of man, or the promise of a Savior, or the Laws of God, or the phophets, or anything else from the OT. Is it good for someone who s reading the Bible for the first time to just read the NT? What is this saying? How are we, as Lutherans, to respond to this?
Edited on: September 02nd, 2005 12:12 am
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Posted On: September 02nd, 2005 at 1:25am by Madre [ + ] |
Take it.  Use it to bear witness to the Gospel in your own conversations. You've been in them before, I'm sure. Talking and explaining and arguing along and you KNOW that there's a verse that drives home the point you're making - but no Bible to be found. Keep a little greenie in your purse and you're set. A friend of mine used Gideon bibles frequently for just this purpose.
Just rip out the "helpful" study pages that walk you through asking Jesus into your heart. :)
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Posted On: September 02nd, 2005 at 8:40am by Matt |
I am not sure that the Gideons think that the OT is not important. Unfortunately, it is easier and cheaper to hand out a Gideon NT than a Gideon Bible. Besides, if they had to chose one part of the Bible, wouldn't it be best to share the life, death, and resurrection of our Savior?
Another thing to consider, the Gideons place full Bible's in hotel and motel chains all over America. I am not sure why they do that and why not to hand the whole Bible on the streets.
Side note: LDS puts the Book of Mormon in many hotel and motel chains. I always shred them...
I commend the Gideons for going and literally spreading the Word throughout the World. It would be nice if others picked up on their example.
Sandra you have a great idea. I would also say that you should take extra copies and have them ready to give to people. From what I have heard, if you have a "Gideon" Bible already, the Gideons want you to give it to someone who doesn't have one.
Question: Is your college public, private, or Christian?
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Posted On: September 02nd, 2005 at 12:13pm by FemLem1 |
Matt: public - University of Texas (I know a lot of the blog readers go to Concordia schools and this may not be relavent to them... I don't suppose Gideons are handing out Bibles there )
Thanks for your feedback. Like I said, I was not meaning to bash by any means (sorry if that's how it came across). I was just curious what other people think about the lack of an OT, wether or not that mattered.
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Posted On: September 04th, 2005 at 4:06pm by femlem2 |
perhaps the reason that the Concordia schools dont have people handing that stuff out, is becuase i dont think that they are big enough to have street corners.  If CUA did, im sure that there would be people handing all kinds of stuff out.
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Posted On: September 04th, 2005 at 5:42pm by Matt |
You can speak for CUA...but CUNE has plenty of street corners to pass Gideon Bibles out on. CUNE has also been known to get Mormon visitors too...
But you know when you get a real Lutheran University whenever there are more BoC's passed out than the Bible. :)
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