Midweek Bible Study

Some may see teaching or even attending a midweek Bible Study a drudgery. For the preacher the crowds are always much smaller. For the attenders it is another event to crowd into already overcrowded schedules.

For me I sit here waiting anxiously for time to tick by as I have countless other Wednesday nights. I did this on Wednesday nights as youth pastor. I could not wait for the appointed hour in the first church I pastored. I did the same at FBC Paradise. We enjoyed special times studying through the book of Acts and Revelation. At FBC Seminole we began meeting in a Sunday School classroom and soon outgrew that space and relocated to the choir room. We studied through I Corinthians and parts of Genesis with several character studies on Noah, Abraham, and Joseph. Already at Faith Community we have studied through I Thessalonians, I Timothy, Joel, and James. I count down the moments until the people would  come to break open God's word. Tonight I can hardly wait for the next sixty minutes to pass as we continue to dig through the book of Ephesians verse by verse.

I never know how many will come for the study. On a few occasions we barely had a enough chairs for the attenders. Most of the time the crowds are relatively small. This does not dampen the enthusiasm to teach and to learn. The night before Thanksgiving we only had nine and four of those were my family. Brenda and Tanner stayed behind to cook. That did cool off my enthusiasm. I got so excited we ended up going a few verses beyond what I had planned for.

The discussion is always lively. I welcome the feedback as learn together. God feeds our souls on the meat of His inerrant sharp two edged sword. There have been a few rare occasions when the studies lasted well over an hour not because of my teaching but because the attenders kept asking questions and kept the discussion going. They did not want to leave.

I love midweek Bible study. This is largely when the remnant of the church gathers together, although in our church, I also see the remnant gather on Sunday nights for our prayer meeting.

Midweek Bible study is one of the highlights of my week. There are times my soul is enraptured in the proclamation of the scriptures. I am eager to exposit Ephesians tonight. I pray the Lord would meet with us and nourish our souls.