John Bible Reading Challenge

Challenge yourself to achieve 1000 points by completing your choice of the following activities. Each activity has a certain number of points depending on how challenging it is. Some activites may be particularly suited for children and families, while others may be more suited for adults and teens. One of the best parts of a challenge is doing it together. Find another family to do it with, or involve your Sunday School or CYC.

Read - 400 Points

Read through all of John for 400 points! Below you can find a printable tracker for each chapter so you can check them off as you go!

Bible Journal - 500 Points

Use a notebook or a Bible Reading Journal to take notes while you read. You can order a prepared reading journal on Amazon (link below) or use just a regular notebook. A page of suggested questions to ask is also available below. Share your thoughts or favourite verses with your friends and family or on Social Media.

Bible Art - 500 Points

Choose a verse that exhorts or encourages you during your Bible readings and illustrate it. Share your creations here: Facebook Bible Journaling Group

Bible Marking - 100 Points

As you read through John, use coloured pencils to colour all the ways Jesus personifies himself. You should be able to find seven.

Language - 150 Points

Do a word study on “word”. You can find a worksheet below that explains how to do a word study. Share what you learn with your friends and family or on Social Media.

Literature - 200 Points

Read through any of the following books and share a quote or two with family and friends or on Social Media. Links to Booksellers below.

The Gospel of John by John Carter
Eight Signs of John by J. Ullman
The Teaching of the Master by L.G. Sargent
No One Ever Spoke Like This Man (Testimony Special Issue).

Media - 300 Points

Search for this talk on Christadelphian Bible Talks and Exhortations:

Parables in the Gospel of John by Jason Hensley

Write a short review to share what you learn.

Memory Verse - 250 Points

Learn at least one of these selections by heart:

John 1:79
John 17:3

Print out and colour the bookmarks (below) if you wish.

Hymn Study - 100 Points

Hymn 225: Bread of Heaven.

Sing this hymn. You can find a link below for the music. Write out the hymn (worksheet below), and see if you can find Bible passages that relate to this particular hymn.

Bible Study - 500 Points

Do an overview of the gospel of John. Alternatively you may want to use the notes here to study John 17-21: Study Weekend Notes. Scroll down to find the notes on John.

Lapbook - 250 Points

This particular lapbook was created for a Bible School (5 Sunday School sessions) for a 5-6 year old class. It could also be used in Sunday School when covering the lessons in John 1 to 5, or even at home as an activity to do with your own children. You can choose to add other things to the lapbook if needed, or even scale it back and include fewer flaps. Download here: John 1 to 5 Lapbook

Journey - 100 Points

Read through Auntie Lindsay’s letter below to learn more about the land of Israel, in particular, the Old City of Jerusalem.

The Heart - 300 Points

T H I N K ON T H I S :

RIGHT JUDGEMENT

I feel like it has happened to me many times. Doing my best to be useful, helpful or encouraging, gets judged by other people to have wrong motives, so that even though what I have done has been with a clear conscience, the barrage of criticism still comes.

The same happened to Jesus. He healed a man on the Sabbath day and told him to carry his bed. But people only looked at the part of the event about breaking the Sabbath. They ignored all the other good work he had done in the healing and freeing of a man from his bond on the Sabbath! They judged by appearances instead of making a right judgement based on all the facts. So Jesus told them off. “Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a right judgement.” (John 7 v 24).

We can probably all think of similar things that have happened to us. But if it happens to us all that often, how often do we do it to other people? We don’t see the full story. We often don’t even know half of it before we make our judgements, yet we would have been wrong about Jesus, and other people have got it wrong about us. Let’s stop looking at appearances, pray for guidance and open eyes, and if we have to, make a right and merciful judgement.

Robert Prins (Thinky Things)