Bible Contest
Being down in Tennessee, I haven’t been doing much biblical scholarship. Most of my time has been spent learning JavaScript. But I thought I would blog a contest that the Johnson City Press, the local paper, is holding.
A number of area business and churches have gotten together and are giving away 600 Bibles. Each Tuesday for 16 weeks, one page in the A section of the paper will have small advertisements from each of the 40 businesses and churches. Each advertisement has a Bible verse written in it. It does not give the reference for the verse, but it does give a range of four chapters in which the verse can be found. For instance, they give the verse “There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men,” which they say falls somewhere within Ecclesiastes 5 and 8.
To enter the contest, you have to locate the exact references for three of the verses and send them in within two days. Winners will be drawn from correct entries and will receive a free KJV. The Sunday School class or Youth Group that submits the most correct entries each week will get a study guide of biblical charts and maps.
The stated purpose of the contest is to get people to read the Bible. While it would be nice if they gave away an up-to-date translation, it is hard to argue with free Bibles. Judging from the one week I have seen, the contest has a lot more NT verses than OT, and the majority of OT verses come from Psalms and Proverbs.
On January 29th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Kevin, what are you doing in Tennessee? I knew you had come back to the states from Lithuania, but somehow I missed the Tennessee connection. I lived in Johnson City for 5 years!