Trinity Bible Church

Doug Dean, Pastor

Mark Anderson, Associate Pastor

539 Route 114  •  P.O. Box 566  •  South Sutton, NH 03273  •  (603) 927-4384
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I offer you this ongoing challenge that a number of people at TBC have taken over the past decade: read through the Bible from cover to cover to give you the broad picture of all that God has communicated to us.

You don't have to do it in order — skip around, a book at a time. Take a year to do it if you're ambitious (about 24 chapters a week), or stretch it out over several years.

The main motivation is simply to become more familiar with God's word and thus to know Him better and to be better equipped to serve Him. As a light-hearted added incentive, every January I cook a big pot of spaghetti and host a dinner for everyone who has completed their read-through during the previous year, regardless of how long it took them to finish. Each year this has been a rewarding time of celebration, and the group varies from year to year, with both first-timers and veterans, from children (just read the New Testament) to retirees.

There are just under 1200 chapters in the Bible. To read through the Bible in a year, you'll need to cover around 24 chapters a week — that's something like 4 chapters a day, 6 days a week, or 5 chapters a day, 5 days a week. If you stretch the process over 14 months, it's about 20 chapters a week; 16 months means 17 chapters a week. I would suggest that you read 3 or 4 chapters at a time from whichever book you're working on, and mix in a Psalm or a Proverb with it. Keep track of what you've read on the chart. Mix it up -- don't read straight from Genesis to Revelation. Jump from Old Testament to New, from history to prophets to Paul's letters, etc. Don't let this become legalistic. Enjoy God's word!

Why not get started today on your reading plan, and start looking for the spaghetti dinner signup list around the Christmas holidays!

Ready to start?