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The New Testament

Hello all. First off I realize that this isn't the normal day for this. I accidentally hit the wrong day on the post planning app. So that is due to human error.

This post is going to be short because I want to outline how we are going to tackle the New Testament. For the Old Testament we went in canonical order; meaning the order the books appear in the Bible. This works really well for the Old Testament as a lot of the books were connected and told one big story.

For the New Testament I am going to try something a little different. Instead of going in canonical order, I am going to go in the order they were written in. Why? To make it easier on all of us.

Now I am a big proponent of the canonical order. I think it is worthwhile to read the books of the Bible in this order. For the purposes of this blog, where we are going over the major themes, it might get a tad confusing. This is simply because the four gospels are all together and Paul's letters are all bunched together. If we spread them out a little bit it will help us all understand the themes and see the distinctions among them. Trust me, when you are on the third gospel in a row they can start to blend together.

So this is how it's going to be. Each week I will be sure to mention at the end of each post what the next book will be, in case you want to read ahead. I pray that you find our study of the New Testament just as enlightening as the Old.

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