x20 books
Monday, June 18, 2007 at 09:41AM I made a fairly good start with my resolution to read each book of the Bible 20 times, but with all the other reading and studying I do (of the Bible and other resources) to prepare for a women's study that I lead, and my Sunday School class that I teach, along with the preparation I do for the Bible Study small group that I attend with my husband, I found it very hard to read a single book 20 times in the midst of all that.
Even so, I still thought that I would benefit greatly from the 20x method, so where there's a will, there's a way.
This morning I finished James, 1 and 2 Peter, First, Second and Third John, and Jude--all 20 times. How did I do it? By listening to the scriptures on tape in the kitchen. All those books are on one single tape and over a period of about a week, I was able to listen to the scriptures being read aloud to me as I prepared meals and cleaned up the kitchen and loaded and unloaded the dishwasher and put away groceries. . .you get the idea.
In this way, I am both renewing my mind and redeeming the time.
I have the entire New Testament on tape, so I'll work through them all until I have listened to all the NT books 20x. Then I'll have to invest in a set of OT tapes.
Reader Comments (1)
On tape/audio!!!!! An excellent idea--I've found it more and more difficult to fit the multiple readings into my schedule in recent years and would love to get back to that practice! Thanks for sharing your idea/solution!