Just a post for anyone to share what their favorite way of reading the Bible is and if you have used a how to read/rightly divide the Bible work what that would be.
I was heading in the direction of spending more time reading commentaries or sermons and books, but think this forum helped me get more into the line of spending the most time on the Bible. So right now I am just reading the Bible like I would read anything, I am not sure exactly how I will end up doing it, I am reading more in the Old Testament at the moment but was thinking to also read some in the New Testament regularly, to keep that, but just not sure what to do really.
I think a few things lately have suggested reading whole books of the Bible at once and this seems great, but I am not that fast a reader and even if I could read some books in one day, I am not sure I could in one setting, but I think the idea of getting regularly through the Bible makes sense to keep it all in mind and before me.
Then I am thinking to maybe try to do Bible study in addition, such as maybe going through a website that has R A Torrey related topical things, also Bible Encylopedia type things, not fully sure what that is, but stuff that gives me information to learn how to interpret it myself instead of just relying on what others say in commentaries?
Learning how to do word studies that I am not sure what all methods there are to study the Bible itself, so any tips and thoughts and resources here would be great.
Then a few different how to read the Bible resources have been recommended, and while I want to read multiple if I can, money is tight right now so I kind of want to compare the different ones to see where to start on this.
Right now I am trying to read around 13 chapters in the Bible a day, the original thought was 10 in the Old Testament and 3 in the New Testament as this gets me through both about every 90ish days, to help me have better grounding. I am not successfully doing that every day, and got up earlier today to do it, but that was reading with less focus since I was sleepy still or what not, so just trying to figure it out.
What do you all recommend?
In the past I did a Professer Holman? maybe system that was reading 10 chapters a day each in a different spot, and it was neat, not sure how long I stayed with it, but just seems a little complicated to keep up with especially as I tend to read on my phone now, and also things have talked about doing the books in one setting talk about getting that line of thought from each book and doing 10 different places in the Bible helps see where Scripture relates to each other but not sure if I can keep that many lines of thought going.
Maybe I am trying to do too much, I don't know, but don't think its bad to have these goals even if I don't always read that much or what not.
I mean I am thinking being in the Bible that much and looking up cross references for Bible study and words through the Bible might help me to get what it is saying instead of relying on commentaries so much, but not sure... not that I have relied on commentaries, but Spurgeon said something about not learning from what the Holy Spirit has taught others before, and that made sense, though I didn't realize there were quite so many differences of opinions on so many things it seems.
Thanks for any help.
I was just reading a few chapters a day not long ago, maybe 3-5ish.
I was heading in the direction of spending more time reading commentaries or sermons and books, but think this forum helped me get more into the line of spending the most time on the Bible. So right now I am just reading the Bible like I would read anything, I am not sure exactly how I will end up doing it, I am reading more in the Old Testament at the moment but was thinking to also read some in the New Testament regularly, to keep that, but just not sure what to do really.
I think a few things lately have suggested reading whole books of the Bible at once and this seems great, but I am not that fast a reader and even if I could read some books in one day, I am not sure I could in one setting, but I think the idea of getting regularly through the Bible makes sense to keep it all in mind and before me.
Then I am thinking to maybe try to do Bible study in addition, such as maybe going through a website that has R A Torrey related topical things, also Bible Encylopedia type things, not fully sure what that is, but stuff that gives me information to learn how to interpret it myself instead of just relying on what others say in commentaries?
Learning how to do word studies that I am not sure what all methods there are to study the Bible itself, so any tips and thoughts and resources here would be great.
Then a few different how to read the Bible resources have been recommended, and while I want to read multiple if I can, money is tight right now so I kind of want to compare the different ones to see where to start on this.
Right now I am trying to read around 13 chapters in the Bible a day, the original thought was 10 in the Old Testament and 3 in the New Testament as this gets me through both about every 90ish days, to help me have better grounding. I am not successfully doing that every day, and got up earlier today to do it, but that was reading with less focus since I was sleepy still or what not, so just trying to figure it out.
What do you all recommend?
In the past I did a Professer Holman? maybe system that was reading 10 chapters a day each in a different spot, and it was neat, not sure how long I stayed with it, but just seems a little complicated to keep up with especially as I tend to read on my phone now, and also things have talked about doing the books in one setting talk about getting that line of thought from each book and doing 10 different places in the Bible helps see where Scripture relates to each other but not sure if I can keep that many lines of thought going.
Maybe I am trying to do too much, I don't know, but don't think its bad to have these goals even if I don't always read that much or what not.
I mean I am thinking being in the Bible that much and looking up cross references for Bible study and words through the Bible might help me to get what it is saying instead of relying on commentaries so much, but not sure... not that I have relied on commentaries, but Spurgeon said something about not learning from what the Holy Spirit has taught others before, and that made sense, though I didn't realize there were quite so many differences of opinions on so many things it seems.
Thanks for any help.
I was just reading a few chapters a day not long ago, maybe 3-5ish.
