Jeff Adams

If you read this blog with any regularity, you know that every so often I turn loose that Spanish-speaking part of my brain and do a post in Spanish. For this post I’d like to discuss my Spanish side in English. ¿Me comprendes?

Spanish is on my brain because I just got home from our Wednesday night Spanish Bible study. We do this in the auditorium so we can video it and post it on the web site. I have been gratified to see a solid core of consistent attendees and some modest growth. Currently, we are doing a study of 1 Peter. Here are some of the things I especially enjoy about this Wednesday night study:

• It gives me a chance to keep current teaching in Spanish. The old adage “if you don’t use it, you lose it” is true. I’m not worried about losing the ability to speak Spanish. My devotional life is in Spanish. My daily Bible reading, prayer time and journaling is all in Spanish. But, it is something else to preach and teach. I need the practice. I usually get to do this Bible study 2 or 3 times each month. Someone else does the study if I am not able to come.
• This time gives me an opportunity to get to know an important part of our church family. I would estimate that approximately 15 to 20% of our church family is Hispanic.
• I enjoy seeing some Anglos who show up to practice their Spanish from time to time. Since they are already familiar with Bible vocabulary, it is easier to follow along.

No matter who you are, you are welcome to join us each Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in the main auditorium. If you would like to experiment and see if you can keep up, check out the streaming video from the precious week available here. You can also listen to the audio from several weeks back. If I was gone the previous week, the face you see may not be mine. But, whoever it is, you will find some good preaching and teaching in Spanish. If you have Spanish-speaking friends or coworkers, this might be a good way to reach out to them by emailing them this link or bringing them some Wednesday night.