A couple of years ago I read the book of Revelation. I started in November 2016 and finished around April 2018. It took about a year and a half to read just one of those 66 books. (I didn't plan the timing, it just took how long it took.)
In some ways it feel like I read the Bible more with the whole Bible reading plan, I certainly read more of it. In other ways it feels like I read more of the Bible when I took about 18 months to read one book.
With the whole Bible reading plan, I had to skim read two new passages each day, and sometimes read a devotion on it.
With Revelation I read it myself, I read it with a group and used a study book. I listened to the Bible online while I was cleaning, I listened to Phillip Jensen sermons, he had at least one sermon on each part. I read a Paul Barnett book. I read each chapter again and again. I wrote about it such as this and this. I was fully immersed in it for all those months.
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You are really disciplined! I have tried a few of these plans and always got stuck somewhere in the middle. But I have learned that reading and discussing passages with others is very fruitful.
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Thanks for your comment Katha. The whole Bible plan did feel like a discipline, maybe like having a shower each day, but reading the one book over a year and a half was more like splashing around in a pool.
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