Bishop’s Scripture Reading Plan for 2014

This scripture reading plan was develop by Bishop Kenneth Carter of the Florida Episcopal Area, and is being suggested by Bishop McAlilly as a means of searching the scriptures together in the Tennessee and Memphis Annual Conferences.
As New Testament scholar and professor at Candler School of Theology, Emory University,  Luke Timothy Johnson has noted, the books of Luke and Acts were never intended to be read separately.  The life of Jesus and the life of the church cannot be understood apart from each other.   Luke faithfully reported on the life and ministry of Jesus and how this life and ministry continued in the early church.  We can read Luke and Acts within the framework of how the life and ministry of Jesus is among us to this day and as a blueprint for what it means to make disciples for the transformation of the world.