I got an email from my cousin Kathryn about The Hinckley Challenge. Here is what I read when I went to the website.
President Hinckley often stressed our making the Book of Mormon part of our lives. He was 97 when he passed away, and we would like to celebrate his life and teachings by reading the Book of Mormon in 97 days.
President Gordon B. Hinckley on the Book of Mormon
"I take in my hand the Book of Mormon. I read its words. I have read Joseph Smith's explanation of how it came to be. To the unbelieving it is a story difficult to accept, and critics for generations have worn out their lives writing books intended to refute that story and to offer other explanations than the one given by Joseph the Prophet. But to the open-minded, this critical writing has only stimulated them to dig deeper; and the more deeply they dig, the greater the accumulation of evidence for the validity of Joseph Smith's story. Still, as has been demonstrated for a hundred and fifty years, the truth of the Book of Mormon will not be determined by literary analysis or by scientific research, although these continue to be reassuring. The truth about the origins of the Book of Mormon will be determined today and tomorrow, as it has been throughout the yesterdays, by reading the book in a spirit of reverence and respect and prayer."
( "Praise to the Man," Ensign, Aug. 1983, 4)
I decided to join. The challenge begins in 3 days. Will you join too?
4 comments:
Great idea!! Would it be cheating to finish from where I am now in the allotted 97 days? (Alma 10)
I've been working hard to read at least a chapter a day. Ok so I started over again this week but I think I'm going to start from where I'm at. I just about have 1 Nephi chapter 1 completely memorized!
I will take the challenge. Thanks for the offer, I look forward to it
Yikes, I will read this again in three days. At this time of night it sounds daunting. Although I read it in seventeen days once. So I should be able to do it.
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