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Originally Posted by corvet786c
I am glad you chimed in here aquila, but why 15 minutes, why not 30 or 45 minutes. Where is the line at? Where do I have to be where I can say, hey I am spending time with God enough to do other things and not feel guilt like the original post. Compare to someone like Charles Stanley where he does rebuke, but does it on a much caring, concerned level than the other. Where I would be more prone to do it Charles Stanley way than the other. I just felt controlled and not good enought when I heard that message on Sunday.
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Corvet,
I wouldn't put a time limit on prayer or Bible reading. Talk to God every day, and not with a timer on just to make sure you meet a "quota." Talk to Him as long as you need to, and it doesn't have to only be once.
Get in the Word in some way on a regular basis. Sometimes that's reading the Bible, but sometimes it can be in a devotional sense. If I spend 45 minutes watching a sermon or an hour with my girls having a Bible study, I consider that to be my Bible study time. "In the Word" isn't always as cut and dried as just sitting down and reading scripture straight through. (Although that's good, too.)
With our kids, we emphasize consistency over quantity. I tell them that it's better to talk to God for 5 minutes every day than to go all week without praying and then pray for an hour on Sunday. I would rather that they make talking to God and studying the Word a regular part of their lives (e.g., a HABIT), than to only focus on it when they go to church.
Personally, I don't time myself--ever. Do you time your conversations with your friends? No, sometimes you might be on the phone for 5 minutes, and other times you might sit down for coffee and talk for hours.
Hybrid Mode
