Reading plans lead the reader through the whole Bible, or a book of it, in daily portions across a year or a season.
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How It Is Practiced
The reader follows a printed or digital schedule — a chapter or two of the Old Testament, a portion of the New Testament, a psalm and a proverb each day in the classic M'Cheyne plan, or a chronological ordering in newer ones. Churches distribute the plans and read together; apps track the portions and send reminders. Devotional books on the same pattern pair each day's reading with a page of commentary, from Oswald Chambers' My Utmost for His Highest to today's email devotionals.
Purpose and Meaning
The plan answers a practical problem: left to choice, readers return to favorite passages and never meet the whole counsel of Scripture. By submitting the choice of text to a schedule kept with others, the reader receives passages they would not have picked, in an order that builds the Bible's whole story. The discipline is coverage joined to regularity.
References
- Bible Reading Plans — Bible Gateway Free / open access
Related Practices
- The Quiet Time — The quiet time is a daily period alone with Scripture and prayer, usually in the morning, kept by evangelical Christians around the world.
- Scripture Memorization — Christians memorize passages of Scripture word for word so that the text is carried in the heart and available at need.
- Torah Study as Devotion — In Judaism, study is itself worship: the daily portion, the weekly cycle, and the paired argument of the study house are acts of devotion.
Related Across the Site
- Journaling and Commonplace Books Devotion — Generations of Christians have kept notebooks of Scripture, prayer, and self-examination as a daily devotional discipline.
- Scripture Memorization Devotion — Christians memorize passages of Scripture word for word so that the text is carried in the heart and available at need.
- The Mezuzah Devotion — A parchment scroll inscribed with the Shema is fixed to the doorposts of the home, touched in passing as a reminder of the covenant.
- The Quiet Time Devotion — The quiet time is a daily period alone with Scripture and prayer, usually in the morning, kept by evangelical Christians around the world.
- Torah Study as Devotion Devotion — In Judaism, study is itself worship: the daily portion, the weekly cycle, and the paired argument of the study house are acts of devotion.
- Al-Fatiha Prayer or Creed — The opening chapter of the Qur'an, recited in every unit of the ritual prayer.
- Shema Prayer or Creed — Judaism's central affirmation of the one God, drawn from Deuteronomy 6:4 and recited morning and evening.
- The Lord's Prayer (Our Father) Prayer or Creed — The prayer Jesus taught his disciples in Matthew 6 and Luke 11, shared by Christians of every tradition.