I came up with a system that I think works very well, this system allows you to read the books of the Bible that are the most useful to help you grow and learn more about the word of God, and you will still be able to read the entire Bible in Less one year.
Over the past few years, I have used different ideas to read the Bible in a year. I felt like I was spending a lot of time reading less important books and not reading the correct books as much as I needed to. About five months ago I found a different plan that really made sense to me because it focused on spending more time reading the parts of the Bible that pertain to the things we need to know now. Professor Horner created the plan I found. I loved the concept of his plan and was very excited about it.
Professor Horner’s system makes you read ten chapters a day from ten lists of books of the Bible. They set up the lists so that you read the best books more often. For example, read Acts and Proverbs every month, while reading some Prophets and Old Testament history only once a year.
After reading with this program for 90 days, I had a couple of things that I just didn’t like. It complicated the tracking system. You need to have ten bookmarks in your Bible and you can only use the same Bible for all your readings or you don’t know where it is. The second thing I didn’t like was reading only one chapter of each book. Going to a different book didn’t give me enough in each book at once.
I came up with my system. It uses the same concept but is much easier to track. He still reads 10 chapters a day, but not ten different books. You read 10 chapters of 1 or 2 books while still reading the entire Bible in 308 days. You will also read Acts and Proverbs every 42 days, the Gospels every 63 days, and the entire New Testament every 63 days.
My system has 7 lists, one for each day of the week. Start at the top of the list and read ten chapters each day. For example, read Matthew 1-10 on Monday, on Tuesday read Romans 1-10, all week long. Next week read Matthew 11-20 on Monday and Romans 11-16 on Tuesday, and 1 Corinthians 1-4 to get its 10 chapters on Tuesday, etc. over week.
As for tracking your reading, I’ve created a spreadsheet that you can download and track on your computer, or you can print it out and take it with you. In the narrow column next to the books of the Bible, just write on paper or enter into the computer the last chapter you read next to the book on the day you are reading, do it every day to keep track of where you are, everything makes sense when you look at the spreadsheet.
Reading in this way gives you a larger portion of the book of the Bible each day. I feel like I am learning much more by reading the Bible with this plan than in any other way I have read the Bible. It has made a huge difference for me and I wanted to share it with everyone who is interested.
Another great advantage of this system is that if you prefer to listen to an audio Bible, which I do sometimes, it is much easier to listen to 10 chapters in a row than having to switch to a different part of the audio in each chapter. Lets you listen while driving to work or home after work.
It takes 35-45 minutes a day to read and a little longer if I listen to the audio. If you don’t have that much time, you can read as many chapters per day as you can and use the same system, you just won’t be able to read it as fast as what’s on the spreadsheet. But it will continue to have the same purpose of introducing it into the Bible every day, which is the most important thing.
Look at the spreadsheet, check it out and try it out. I think you will like the system and hopefully you will be as excited as I am. Drop me a note and let me know what you think, I’d love to hear from you.