I just got back from having lunch with one amazing guy. His name is Ron Frost. He used to be a professor at Multnomah University in Portland, OR and now blogs and serves missionaries through Barnabas International. Someone who took my workshop last fall introduced me to him via email. He’s the guy who introduced me to the concept of a fast Bible Read Thru.
An article he wrote was the tool God used to spur me on to do the 4-month Bible Read Thru that you’ve seen me write about. What an honor to share a meal and a couple hours with him today.
Ron was 18 when he met a guy named Sam who had read the Bible 2-3 times every year for 50 years! Ron was both blown away and inspired – and has now done the same thing every year since 1964! Fantastic.
To hear his passion, joy and heart for the Author of the Living Word was contagious. We spoke a little of methodology. We spoke a lot of God’s love and His “personality” that we hadn’t seen until we started reading the Bible like a novel – quickly, and with expectation.
I could see the joy on Ron’s face as I told him about the guys from my church I am meeting with every Tuesday morning. In fact, today marks the “halfway point” in our 4-month journey. As we talked this morning, we realized that every one of us is on pace to finish way ahead of time. In fact, two guys are already into the New Testament! And one of those guys had never read the Bible before January – and he’s loving it!
Thanks Ron – for letting God use you to help me (and many others) fall more deeply in love with the Word and it’s Author. (And thanks for the fish tacos.)
