The longer one is a believer the less they think like an unbeliever. They take things for granted without question. Those they are trying to influence may not be so trusting. It seems to me what is scripture and who is inspired are subjects worth investigation.
In your class you mentioned folks thinking the bible difficult to read and to understand. The way the church studies the bible makes it appear to be a very large book. It is smaller than Tolstoy's War and Peace and can be read in less than 80 hours. If the reader is a slow reader say 120 hours or 160 hours or they can listen to it. People read novels but get bored reading the bible. One of the responsibilities of the group is to encourage the individual.
Christian Chronicle has a story:
"Three teens who attend the Concord Road Church of Christ decided to memorize 100 Bible verses each as part of Lads to Leaders/Leaderettes. Jacob Sees, Daniel Stetzinger and Alex Windon challenged the congregation to join them. With the enthusiastic support of the church's six elders, 116 Concord Road members accepted the challenge."
I suspect if the leaders of GSMCOC had shown any interest in the Book of the Month idea more folks would be involved. It takes a few minutes a day and two hours a month to meet with others and talk about what they read. It surely cannot be they do not have the time. Of course they could be too busy. Imagine being too busy to read a book thought to be inspired by their God. We may have too many bibles. If we had less we might see it as important.
The reason for this email: Do you have any idea why Luke is thought to be inspired by anything other than an interest in supporting his friend Theophilus?
Luke: Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled[a] among us, 2 just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word. 3 With this in mind about, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I too decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, 4 so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.
Acts: In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote all that Jesus began to do and to teach 2 until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen.
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