Discipleship Journal Bible Reading Plan

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The Discipleship Journal Bible Reading Plan first appeared in the Discipleship Journal, Issue Thirteen, 1983 as Your Appointment with God: Read Through the Bible This Year. Readers were encouraged to "feel free to make photocopies and pass them around". It has been copied here with their gracious permission.

This Bible Reading Plan offers special features that will aid you in your journey through the Bible.

• By reading from four separate places in the Scripture every day, you should be able to better grasp the unity of the Scriptures, as well as enjoy the variety of seeing four different viewpoints.
  
  
• You can begin at any point of the year.
  
  
• To prevent the frustration of falling behind, which most of us tend to do when following a Bible reading plan, each month of this plan gives you only twenty-five readings. Since you'll have several "free days" each month, you could set aside Sundays to either not read at all or to catch up on any readings you may have missed in the past week.

  Note: Your webmaster has just finished his seventh complete readings of the Bible, but note the emphasis on "finished", since he started and abandoned at least that many again. The reason for these failures was the seemingly impossible efforts to catch up when behind. The plan presented here, developed by the Navigators, provides monthly opportunities to catch up when behind, and thus minimize the chance of failure. Also, webmaster and others have observed that when behind it is the natural tendency to read just for the sake of reading: God's Word is too precious to be given so rough a treatment! It should be read slowly, enjoyed, discovered, digested, and applied. And this can't be done whilst at the same time attempting to double-up to meet a schedule!
  
  

• If you finish the month's readings by the twenty-fifth, you could use the final days of the month to study the passages that challenged or intrigued you.
  
  
• If reading through the entire Bible in one year looms as too large a task, you can alter the plan to meet your needs. For example, you could read the gospels and the wisdom books this year, and the other two categories next year.

In the year ahead, ask God each day to speak directly to you from the Scripture portions you read. Be expectant, and let your continual exposure to God's Word reshape your attitudes and behavior as you gain a better understanding of every part of His written testimony to us.

The scriptures on the web pages associated with this program are all hyperlinks to other web pages. As is the case of all hyperlinks, you just double-click your mouse on the hyperlink word or phrase, and your browser jumps to the new page. In the case of these scripture references, a new browser window is launched and it is connected to a site sponsored by the Gospel Communications Network, where the appropriate passage from the New International Version (NIV) of the Bible is displayed. If you want to know more about the NIV, click here.

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