So what is No Bible Sunday?

No Bible Sunday was first introduced in 2004 as "an innovative church event challenging Christians to apply Scripture in every aspect of their lives and to spread God's life-giving word to their neighbours, around the world."

Some people who heard the title without hearing the purpose behind it responded "What a terrible idea! How could our church have a Sunday without the Bible?"

And that is the point...

• Without the Bible it's extremely hard to worship God, not just because most of our songs are based on Scripture but because the Bible shows us what God is like.
• Without the Bible it's extremely difficult to hear from God. No book can speak more powerfully into our lives than the Bible.
• Without the Bible it's extremely hard to learn much about God or about our purpose in being on this planet, and even harder to know whether what anyone else says about God is true.

No Bible Sunday can help your church to fully realize these facts. It can challenge people to value and read the Bible.

Through ignorance, indifference or their own religious beliefs many people outside the church choose never to read the Bible. But for hundreds of millions of people there is no choice. Through barriers of language, illiteracy or religious persecution, they have no access to the Bible.

For hundreds of millions of people every Sunday is No Bible Sunday.

To really think about what that means use our free resources to run your own No Bible Sunday either for the whole service or just as a dramatic opening to your worship or message. Then see how many more people have been reading their Bible by the following Sunday!