: About Me

Reading the Bible for the first time is a long-term project. The Bible is not a book; it's sixty-six books! It has sixty or more authors and covers hundreds of years of history and any number of topics. Every part of the Bible relates to every other part. It is not a question, therefore, of understanding it on a first reading. It is more a matter of reading for introduction and familiarization, to find out what's there. There are programs for reading the Bible in a year, but a novice Bible reader needs to take a lot more time than that, up to two years. Many churches use a lectionary, a sc...