By Vera Hile - Epic Student
You walk through the church doors. The lobby is filled with children. From six years old through high school, you can see kids having fun. Chatting with their peers, eating snacks, chasing each other around, and many are reading a Luke booklet. You walk into the sanctuary. You see volunteers asking questions and coaches encouraging students. There are 9 chairs set on the altar filled with kids and one of them just got up and is reciting verses from Luke perfectly. THIS is Bible quizzing.
I am so blessed to be part of a community that is built up on God’s word. This organization changes students' lives and opens up doors for the gospel. Epic Church first brought teams three years ago, in 2022. We started with just seven quizzers, but this season we had 13. Instead of just two teams, we brought four and it was “Epic!” This year we had a Little League team (Epic Glory), two Junior Varsity teams (Epic Fell Asleep & Epic Broken Pieces), and a Varsity team (Epic Stood There). The students choose their team names based on verses in Luke.
Our quizzers range from age 6 to 14 and learned either 7 chapters of Luke or 11 based on their age. More than half of our quizzers learned 525 verses by heart, and the possible questions that could be asked in a quiz add up to 2660! The amount of knowledge you need to retain for quizzing is incredible.
Although Epic is a small church, it made a name for itself at Detroit Bible Quizzing this year. We had 5 quizzers in the top ten at the end of the year (across divisions), and 2 teams that made it into the top 3!
I know as a young Christian, Bible quizzing helps me apply scripture anywhere I need it in life, and I relate with so many of the people that Jesus met in the book of Luke. The miracles that Jesus performed inspired me so much this year and were such an encouragement to me, and so was the birth of Jesus.
It’s so cool to see how stories that happened so long ago are now being recited by young people today! This is one of my favorite verses I learned this year, Luke 1:37: “For no word from God will ever fail.”
“For no word from God will ever fail.”
It’s a reminder that every word from God is important and eternal. I get to put God’s word in my heart each Bible Quizzing season, and that way it will never leave me.
That’s the power of Bible Quizzing!
