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Are You Ready to Join Our Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh in a Bible Reading Revival this Fall?
Beginning September 12, 2010, the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh is embarking on a journey together. The Essential 100 Challenge™ is a diocesan-wide program from Scripture Union that really works! The plan is built around a carefully selected list of short Bible passages—50 from the Old Testament and 50 from the New Testament—called The Essential 100™ that enables people to get the big picture of the Bible without getting bogged down. Hundreds of churches and groups have tried it and discovered it’s the one through-the-Bible program that people LOVE TO COMPLETE!
The E-100 Program has been identified by the Bishop’s Biblical Literacy Task Force (BLTF) as the exceptional resource for 
us to use to encourage regular Bible Reading by everyone in the Diocese, as it provides an overview of the Bible with 100 readings and is best done as a community. It has fifty essential readings each from both the Old and New Testaments averaging 60 verses each. The simple punch card planner helps keep readers on task gently and engages readers to stick with the plan. The whole country of New Zealand is reading through the Bible together using this plan! Scripture Union has worked with large Anglican and orthodox Episcopal churches throughout the country in helping establish daily bible reading habits in a denomination unfortunately known for lack of Biblical literacy! Some churches in this diocese have begun independently using the reading plan in their own education programs, and the high success rate of participation by all parishioners was mentioned to the BLTF last spring. Bishop Robert and the BLTF met personally with Scripture Union last November and the plan was formed.
Upon its launch, Sunday, September 12, 2010, our E-100 Program will run fifty consecutive weeks, ending on Sunday, August 28, 2011. Each week will feature two readings for parishioners to read at home which will be manageable for most people. The readings average 60 verses each. In a wonderful providence, the 50 Old Testament readings conclude the Sunday before Ash Wednesday. The 50 New Testament readings begin the week of Lent. Covering the flow of the entire Bible in one year, the program will end the Sunday before the Labor Day weekend in 2011. The arc of scripture will be more understood by all our diocese helped by the chronological nature of the reading schedule. After participating in the E-100, the Bible is less daunting, more captured in everyone’s heart, and the daily lectionary cycle and other devotional plans become more understandable. The E-100 works at keeping new Bible readers on task and completing what they start. You can use the E100 readings in your adult ed/Bible study discussions if you wish, or preach every third week on what everyone has just read! The goal is for everyone to be doing it together-from start to finish.We look forward to your church participating with us!
“Without Scripture Union there were times in my life when I wouldn’t have been close enough to the Lord to make it through.”
Rt. Rev. John H. Rodgers Jr. Th.D
former Dean and President of Trinity School for Ministry
“The E-100 program is an effective way to lead a congregation through the entire Bible. I highly commend it to any community that wants to be formed and transformed by Scripture.”
Archbishop Robert Duncan
Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh
Click here for a list of the readings.
The Bible Reading Plan People Love To Complete
THE ESSENTIAL 100 CHALLENGE
WWW.E100CHALLENGE.COM • 800.621.LAMP (5267)
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