The International Day of the Bible (@IntlDayofBible), Nov. 23, 2015, is a day set aside to invite people around the world to publicly read Scripture and share their favorite Bible verse or passage during the noon hour of their local time.

[See our previous blogpost, Join the International Day of the Bible: An Interview with Richard Glickstein]

During Nov. 23, every 15 minutes, from noon on Christmas Island to—24 hours later—noon on Hawaii, Bible Gateway (@BibleGateway) Tweeted (using the hashtag #BibleCelebration) the top 100 favorite Bible verses as searched for on our website by millions of people from more than 200 countries. These visitors to Bible Gateway come to freely read, hear, search, study, compare, & share the Bible in more than 200 Bible versions & more than 70 languages. Millions more have downloaded the Bible Gateway App to keep Scripture with them on their smartphones and tablets wherever they go.

Use Bible Gateway on Nov. 23 and every day to share Gods Word with your friends and through your social networks. As a church, encourage your congregation to use Bible Gateway to understand the Big Picture of Scripture. For example, Thornapple Evangelical Covenant Church, Grand Rapids, MI, encourages people to read two sets of verses a week for a year with links to 100 Bible passages on Bible Gateway. Remember to use our many Bible reading plans, such as the Revised Common Lectionary, and free email devotional newsletters to augment your devotion to the Word. And create your own free account on Bible Gateway so you can highlight, bookmark, write personal notes, and unlock digital Bible resource books while you read the Bible and synchronize everything across your Internet devices.

You may also be interested in seeing American Bible Society’s seven day devotional on the topic of the public reading of Scripture and Scripture Union’s The Essential 100 Challenge.