Christian Ministry: Don't Read The Bible This Christmas
FOWLERVILLE, Mich., Dec. 15 -- Christian Resources International, a ministry that sends Bibles and Christian books to needy Christians overseas, is calling on American Christians to spend this Christmas without the Bible.
CRI Executive Director Fred Palmerton suggests that "Christians here at home should try and conduct one worship service this Christmas the way that our brothers and sisters in the Third World regularly have to worship: without any Bibles."
"Every day, more than 122,000 people become Christian, and most of those people are in Africa, Asia, and South America," reports Palmerton, who serves as a volunteer. "They're attending churches where even the pastors have no Bibles. In our country, the church isn't growing so much. But the pile of Bibles on every Christian's bookshelf sure is." In fact, research by Christian Booksellers Association and Zondervan Publishers indicates that...