Last year around this time I retweeted something the late Tim Keller had posted that raised a bit of a ruckus on the interweb. I thought the tweet itself was innocuous:
A surprising number of purportedly literate people seized upon the phrase "nothing more important" as if they were unaware of how the English language actually works. In common parlance, saying that “there is nothing more important than” is simply a way of saying, "I cannot overstate the importance of". Keller was claiming that, in his estimation, it is difficult to overstate the importance of reading through the whole Bible year after year.
I couldn’t agree more!
The online kerfuffle caused by Keller’s tweet only served to prove his point. The internet has changed the way we think, the way we feel and the way we communicate. Social Media is training us to be more tribal, more reactionary, less reflective and less empathetic as human beings.
If ever there was a people who needed to read through the Bible in a year, it is us!
If ever there was a time to commend the healing power of Scripture reading and study, it is now!