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The Bible in four months.
Jesus first, then the origin story, then the theology, then the ending. Roughly two chapters a day plus a psalm and a proverb.
September·
Know Jesus.
Mark gives you the fast narrative. John takes you into his identity. Acts shows what happened next. By September 30 you should be able to explain who Jesus is from scripture rather than from church clichés.
Watch a free book overview before you start. Highlight every use of the word “immediately”, and ask what that pace is telling you.
Mark every “I am” statement in John in one colour. The structure of the book will surface on its own.
Start the prayer ledger this week. Date every request, and be specific enough that you could tell whether it was answered.
Teach ten minutes on who Jesus is according to Mark, to an actual person. Teaching is the study method, not the victory lap.
Acts 1:8 is the literal outline of the whole book. Trace where each section begins.
October·
Understand the story.
Now go backward. The goal is not to finish 1,189 chapters. The goal is to know what story the Bible is telling, from creation to messianic expectation.
Word study on “hesed”. English has no single equivalent for it, which is exactly why it repays the effort.
Follow Genesis 12:1-3 through Galatians 3, Romans 4, and Hebrews 11.
Selected Leviticus and Numbers alongside. Exodus 20:2 comes before 20:3. Rescue precedes law. Sit with that ordering before you read another commandment.
Build the spine by hand: creation, fall, flood, Babel, Abraham, Joseph, exodus, covenant, law, wilderness, land, judges, David, division, exile, return, Messiah.
November·
Learn the theology.
Slow down. Romans especially should not be rushed, roughly a chapter a day. This is the month your study becomes theological rather than only narrative.
Track sin, justification, faith, grace, righteousness, and adoption as they are introduced. Start memorising Romans 8:31-39.
Romans quotes the Old Testament constantly. Read ten of those quotations in their original setting.
Pray only in the words of the psalms this week. It will feel constraining for two days and then it will crack something open.
Watch how the prophets hold judgment and hope together in the same breath. Neither one cancels the other.
December·
Put the whole Bible together.
Synthesis, then output. Teach something every single week this month.
Both are about the gap between what you believe and what you actually do.
Map every prayer in Ephesians. Paul almost never prays for circumstances. He prays that people would know something.
This is where October pays off. You could not have read this book properly in September.
Genre first, because that is where most misreading starts. Then read Genesis 1 to 3 and Revelation 20 to 22 side by side and watch the story close.
Take a passage you have never studied. Thirty minutes. Then explain context, genre, observations, interpretation, cross references, theology, application, and prayer.