Where To Start Reading God's Word?
God has revealed something unique and wonderful about Himself or His purposes or His ways in each & every book of the Bible. This is why it's important to eventually read the whole of His Word! It is not critical to the LTG strategy to read any particular book in any particular order. Reading a book of the Bible systematically (in the order it is written) is critical!
 Another concept critical to the success of an LTG is that each member allow his mind to be immersed in God's Word. Specifically, an LTG will read no less than 25 and no more than 30 chapters from the Bible each week. An LTG can read 5-6 chapters 5-6 times in a week, like the book of EPHESIANS or straight through 25 chapters of a particular book like that of GENESIS. There are, however, 5 books of the Bible that when read will have introduced the reader to most every essential Christian doctrine. We suggest reading these 5 books in the following sequence as a great place to begin your LTG journey: JOHN, GENESIS, EPHESIANS, ROMANS, & JAMES.
If just one member of the group is unable to complete the reading for the week, then everyone does the reading again the next week. This is not bad, as reading entire books repetitively will yield rich rewards! Once everyone completes the reading the same week, choose the next reading together.
No matter where you begin reading, remember: READ to enhance your RELATIONSHIP with God!
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