Book Chapters Day

Start Reading the Bible – A Simple Plan

Genesis 1
Here’s a short Bible reading plan that will give you an understanding of 2 1
Christianity by reading 3 chapters a day, about 12 minutes for 20 days. 3
You can read more or less as you desire; simply put a tick in each numbered Deuteronomy 5
box in the column on the right as you read each chapter and the column will
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visually remind you where you are up to and of your achievement. Mark 1
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1. Read the first 3 chapters in the Bible, Genesis chapters 1, 2, 3. This 3
is the story of:- 4 3
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• God’s creation of the world and the first people, Adam and Eve.
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• Everything was beautiful and perfect at creation. 7 4
• Adam and Eve then sinned, they rebelled against God and ruined 8
everything. 9
Here we begin to understand why we need Jesus: to fix the problems of 10 5
sin and restore all things to perfection. 11
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Turning to the 5 book of the Bible, read Deuteronomy chapter 5. 14
This contains The 10 Commandments (verses 7 - 21) which are repeated 15
from Exodus 20. God requires all people to obey these laws. These 16 7
commandments reveal our sins, our crimes against God. We need someone to
save us from our sins - Jesus Christ. Matthew 5
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3. Now move straight to the story of Jesus in the New Testament. The New John 1
Testament (the last 25% of the Bible) begins with 4 biographies of the life of 2
Jesus. These are called gospels (good news) and were written by Matthew,
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Mark, Luke and John.
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• Matthew emphasises the fact that Jesus is the Jewish King and came 5
in fulfilment of all the Old Testament Scriptures. 6 10
• Mark emphasises the fact that Jesus came to serve mankind and to 7
suffer. 8
• Luke, a medical Doctor, emphasises the fact that Jesus was totally 9 11
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• John emphasises the fact that Jesus is fully God. 11
Read all 16 chapters of Mark. Mark is the shortest gospel and will 12 12
give you a good understanding of the true life of Jesus and His teachings. 13
This will also clear up many partial truths you may have learned. 14
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4. Read Matthew chapters 5, 6, 7. In these chapters, Jesus teaches how life
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should be lived in His Kingdom while living on earth. Jesus also corrects many
misunderstandings about God and the Old Testament. 19
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5. Read the whole gospel of John. John emphasises the fact that Jesus is Romans 1
fully God. The purpose of this gospel is to encourage the reader to believe in 2
Jesus Christ and consequently gain eternal life. (see John 20:31) 3 16
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6. Finally, read the book of Romans. th
This is the 6 book in the New 6 17
Testament. It’s about the problems of sin and how Jesus makes it possible to be 7
fully restored to God. Anybody (Jew or non-Jew) can become one of God’s 8
children and have a great eternal future. 9 18
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Don’t try to read all this plan at once. Read a little and mark it off and think about it;
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listen spiritually for God’s voice speaking to you. Finally, you will have many
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questions. Please write them down and ask a good local church or email them to us
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at info@monashchurch.com.au
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May God richly bless you as you read His Word, the Bible. 16

Monash Christian Fellowship, Melbourne, Australia. monashchurch.org.au Author Pastor Bill Wheaton 2010, revised 2013