Dr. Grant Horner’s Bible Reading System is, as the name implies, a system rather than a static plan that reads one chapter each day from ten different biblical genres.

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Features

  • As a result of restart each genre after completing the genre, each day has a new set of readings and texts to cross reference. (In this sense, this is a more of a perpetual system rather than a traditional plan (with concrete start and end dates).)

Here’s how Dr. Horner puts it:

“You will NEVER read the same set of ten chapters 4 to 5 to five times each, the OT wisdom literature six times, all the Psalms at least twice, all the Proverbs as well as Acts a dozen times, and all the way through the OT History and Prophetic books about 1.5 times. Since the interweaving is constantly changing, you will experience the Bible commenting on itself in constantly changing ways …” (Source (PDF))

  • Further, because 10 chapters are read each day, “[m]oderate but consistent speed is the key.” (Ibid.) That is, this is not a deep dive reading, but rather a “rapid, broad-scale contextualizing across both testaments and all the different biblical genres.” (Ibid.)

My Thoughts

  • By reading nearly every biblical genre each day, I like how this plan benefits from a daily psalm and Gospel reading.
  • Such a broad reading also facilitates connecting it to the church calendar.
  • Although a significant daily commitment, this plan is not tied to a date and is, as one author said, forgiving in that you simply pick up where you left off.
  • That said, I think this would be difficult to read in community as a result of the challenge of staying in sync by not missing any days.
  • Good to see how others have adapted the plan (see below).

Others' Thoughts