Read The Most Popular Chronological Bible In A Year
I've come up with a system that I feel works great, this system gets you reading the books of the Bible that are the most useful to help you grow and learn more about God's word, and you still will get through the entire Bible in less than a year.
For the past several years, I have used different ideas to read through the Bible in a year. I felt that I was spending a lot of time reading less important books and not reading the right books as much as I needed. About five months ago I found a different plan that made sense to me because it focused on the Chronological Bible reading plan, spending more time reading the parts of the Bible that pertain to the things we need to know now. Professor Horner created the plan I found. I loved the concept of his plan and was very excited about it.
Professor Horner's system has you read ten chapters per day from ten lists of books of the Bible. They set the lists up so you read the best books more often. For instance, you read Acts and Proverbs every month, while reading some Prophets and old testament history only once per year.
After reading about this program for 90 days, I had a couple of things that I just didn't like about it. He complicated the tracking system. You need to have ten bookmarks in your Bible and you can only use the same bible for all your reading or you don't know where you are. The second thing I didn't like is reading only one chapter from each book. Going to a different book didn't give me enough in each book at a time.
I came up with my system. It uses the same concept but is much easier to track. You still read 10 chapters per day, but not out of ten different books. You read 10 chapters out of 1 or 2 books while still getting through the entire Bible in 308 days. You will also read through Acts and Proverbs every 42 days, the gospels every 63 days, and the entire New Testament every 63 days.
My system has 7 lists, one for each day of the week. You start at the top of the list and read ten chapters each day. For example, you read Matthew 1 through 10 on Monday, Tuesday you read Romans 1 through 10, right through the week. The next week you read Matthew 11 through 20 on Monday and Romans 11 through 16 on Tuesday, and I Corinthians 1 through 4 to get your 10 chapters in on Tuesday, etc. through the week.
Another great thing about this system is that if you would rather listen to an audio Bible, which I do sometimes, it's much easier to listen to 10 chapters in a row than to have to change to a different part of the audio every chapter. It makes it possible to listen on the drive to work or home after work.
It takes about 35 to 45 minutes per day to read and a little longer if I listen to the audio. If you don't have that much time, you can read as many chapters per day as you can, and use the same system, you just won't get through it as fast as what's on the spreadsheet. But it will still serve the same purpose of getting you in the Bible every day, which is the most important thing.