Annual Bible Reading Chart Template (Page 2 of 2) in pdf

How To Use This Bible Reading Chart

This is a double chart, one imposed on the other.

First, the grid counts off all of the 1189 chapters of the Bible, though Psalm

119 is subdivided into 5 squares. As you read the books of the Bible in any

order you find helpful, simply mark off the box for each chapter. These are

arranged in rows of 50 to simplify your counting and to encourage you to

finish a bit early.

Each Saturday you will add up all the chapters you have read. When you

complete any full row of chapters, simply fill in the small box at the far left

end of that row. This serves as a convenient marker of 50. You only need to

add up the marked boxes in any incomplete rows and then add in the

multiples of 50 for your running total.

The second chart is a graph with the number of chapters read recorded on

the vertical axis. The horizontal axis counts the Saturdays for the year. You

will find it helpful to get a calendar and write the dates fo each Saturday

under the number (e.g. Jan. 5,12,19,26). When you have added up your

running total of chapters read (paragraph #2), simply find the vertical line for

that Saturday and go up that line. Mark a dot on the line at the number of

chapters read so far.

Each week, you can connect that dot to the previous week’s dot. The

growing line of your reading progress should be kept above the target line

printed on the graph. You will always know just how many chapters or weeks

you are ahead of (or behind) schedule.

You can modify this chart for a more accelerated reading program. Simply

draw a new target line from the lower left corner to the top of the line for your

target week (30

week, 40

week). Or, if you finish the Bible in July and want

to reread the New Testament by Thanksgiving, just draw a new target line

from the bottom of the last July Saturday to 260 up the last Saturday line in

November.

Do you wish to read through the Bible in two years instead of one? Simply

mark the Saturday lines with the dates of every other Saturday. This simple

system puts you in charge of your Bible-reading program while motivating

you reach your goal. Read, meditate, obey.

Please feel free to make copies of this chart for your own use or for

distribution. I first devised it in 1972 and have found it stimulating and

flexible.

Last printed 1/2/2007 4:20:00 PM by Kevin Subra

This reading schedule is based upon a design by W.H.Smallman, Baptist Mid-Missions, Cleveland, OH

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