{"id":7107,"date":"2013-01-09T01:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=7107"},"modified":"2013-01-09T14:45:36","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T22:45:36","slug":"reading-your-bible-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/2013\/01\/09\/reading-your-bible-in-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Your Bible in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

“…it is a sin and a shame not to know our own book or to understand the speech and words of our God…” (Martin Luther, from “To the Councilmen of All Cities in Germany That They Establish and Maintain Christian Schools”)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

by Stephen Rodgers<\/em><\/p>\n

As we begin a new year, many of us will once again embark upon that familiar adventure: the Bible reading plan. It’s something of a sad cliche in Christian circles that going solely by the state of our reading faithfulness (or lack thereof), by the time we die, we’ll have read Genesis to Exodus 20-ish about 50 times…and not much else.<\/p>\n

I once had the opportunity to ask a bodybuilder who had trained for decades what the “best” workout was…and with a smile, he told me that “it’s the one that you actually do<\/em>.” \u00a0In some ways, that’s a lot like reading the Bible. \u00a0Ultimately what matters is not the sophistication or particular structure of our Bible-reading plan, it’s that we actually are taking the time to daily immerse ourselves in the very word of God.<\/p>\n

To make our shame even greater, we live in a time with unprecedented access to the Scriptures. \u00a0Consider this:<\/p>\n