How Often Do You Read the Bible?

I once was asked if I believed in the Bible. My answer was emphatically, “yes!” After my response, the person asked, “Have you read everything in the Bible?”

At that point, I couldn’t say that I had.

I was basing my entire life off of something I had not completely read yet.

That needed to change. I began to read the Bible daily and for a significant portion of my day. While I’m not perfect in the discipline and have struggled with seasons of inconsistency, Bible intake has become a steady and consistent part of my life.

So, how often does the average person read the Bible?

As of 2017, the statistics I gathered gave these numbers:

Daily – 13%
Weekly – 22%
Monthly – 7%
Yearly – 30%
Never – 28%

Where would you fall in those statistics?

Distractions from the Bible

People often say that they don’t have enough time to read the Bible. I do believe that we are busier than ever before, but I don’t believe that everyone is too busy to read the Bible even for just a little portion of the day.

Here are some of the distractions causing us to miss Bible reading.

Did you catch that? People spend a daily average of these many minutes on these different distractions:

Facebook – 35 minutes a day
YouTube – 40 minutes a day
Netflix – 100 minutes a day
Mobile Phones – 300 minutes a day
TV – 304 minutes a day

We do have time to read the Bible. We just are filling that time up with lesser pursuits.

I want to encourage you to find time to read the Bible today. There are reasons your Bible reading is inconsistent, but you can fight against the trend.

If you haven’t read regularly, don’t expect to have a 30-60 minutes devotional time the first attempt. Start somewhere and work to where you want to be.
Don’t vow to read the entire Bible when you have never finished a single book of the Bible. Start reasonably and get there over time.

Get into reading the Word today.