Below are a couple selections from the article. I thought the chart at the bottom was instructive.
What is the reading problem? 57% of American adults never read a book through according to the Gallop poll.
It is reported that Americans read 1-1/4 hours a day: newspapers - 30 minutes; magazines - 25 minutes; reports - 20 minutes; NO BIBLE READING listed. A book has been on the market for years containing several pages of good suggestions for Bible reading. Later in the same book, the author admits he never read the Bible through in his life! When two questions were asked in a convention of 3,000, “Do you read the Bible 20 minutes a day? And “Do you pray 20 minutes a day?” 80%, or 2,400, did not! Several hundred ministers discussed a motion to recommend a Bible reading program to their people. After several hours of discussion, the motion was `tabled' (not voted on) because no specific reading plan was found! Patrick Henry on his deathbed said, “Here is a Book, worth more than all others that were ever printed, yet it is my misfortune NEVER TO HAVE FOUND TIME TO READ IT.” Consider that most of the suggestions for Bible reading in the past did not produce Bible readers, and I am keeping this failure-factor in mind as I continue to write for a Bible hungry, world wide audience.
When you read the Bible at 200 words a minute (about 10 verses), for one hour a day, you WILL read the Bible through in 2 MONTHS or 6 times a year. Are you surprised? Thousands of people are surprised about this.
When you read the Bible at 200 words a minute (and that is slow reading), for only ½ hour or 30 minutes daily, you will read the Bible through in 4 MONTHS or 3 times a year! Are you still surprised?
Someone has written that 2/3 of all Bible books (44 of 66) are small books, AND CAN BE READ THROUGH, each one of the 44, in 30 MINUTES OR LESS! IF two small books are read in 1 hour each day, TWO THIRDS OF THE ENTIRE BIBLE IS READ THROUGH IN ONLY 22 DAYS! IF the remaining 22 longer books are read through, one a day, THE ENTIRE BIBLE CAN BE READ THROUGH IN 44 DAYS or 6 weeks and 2 DAYS! THAT'S 8 TIMES THROUGH YEARLY!
If you READ THE Bible through only once a year - 5 pages daily - you will not remember what you read because your thoughts will not hold together because other thoughts will crowd into the mind, and you are not taking enough of the Word into your mind and heart to do much good.
The reading Bible you should use should be big print and not marked much.
5 PAGES DAY Through in 365 days Read through 1 Time Year
10 PAGES DAY Through in 180 days Through 6 months - 2 Times Year
15 PAGES DAY Through in 120 days Through 4 months - 3 Times Year
20 PAGES DAY Through in 90 days Through 3 months - 4 Times Year
30 PAGES DAY Through in 60 days Through 2 months - 6 Times Year
60 PAGES DAY Through in 30 days Through 1 months - 12 Times Year
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