A Christ-Centered Bible Reading Plan: Quick Start

(2 or 3 chapters a day is all you need…for the rest of your life.)

Choose whether you will read two chapters a day or three. (If unsure, choose two.) If you read two chapters, they’ll both be from the New Testament (NT); if three, those two NT chapters will be supplemented with one from the Old Testament (OT) – depending on which variation you choose (Psalms, OT-NT History, or the Entire OT). You can view your chosen plan on line each day, or you can print it out and it should last for a year (it’s just two pages).

• 2 chapters a day
  • Plan One: NT (1 chapter from the Gospels + 1 from the Epistles)
    • NT Gospels – These are the four mini-biographies of Jesus. We read all four of them four times a year. This helps us get to know Jesus personally.
    • NT Epistles – These are the 21 letters of the apostles, bookended with the Acts of the Apostles on the front end and the book of Revelation on the back. We read through these 23 writings twice a year. The apostles break Jesus’ teaching down for us, so the Epistles complement the Gospels, filling out our understanding of Jesus.
• 3 chapters a day (The 2 NT chapters above + 1 from the OT)
  • Plan Two: 2 NT + 1 from Psalms
  • Plan Three: 2 NT + 1 from OT-NT History (This is the plan we have been following on Daily Help since January 1.)
    • OT/c – This is a condensed version of the Old Testament, covering in one year all of its history with subsets of its wisdom and prophecy books. Nobody understands the Old Testament better than Jesus – we want to read it through His eyes. We get His perspective on the OT from the two NT readings.
  • Plan Four: 2 NT + 1 from the entire OT (takes three years at one chapter a day)
    • Plan Four: Year One
    • Plan Four: Year Two
    • Plan Four: Year Three

Quick-Start Explanation

Click on one of the links above and, whatever day of the year it is, just find that date…and start reading the assigned chapters. Don’t worry if this starts you in the middle of the plan or in the middle of a Bible book. It probably will, and in the end that won’t matter. What will matter is that you’ve started reading the Bible every day…and that you won’t ever stop as long as you remain on earth.

If you’d like more explanation of these Christ-centered plans, see the Extended Explanation.

To help you in your daily Bible reading:

• Reading Companions: written / audio – These reading companions are complementary to each other, not identical.
• I write every morning at Daily Help.