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Three biggest reasons why Bible reading is down

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  3 https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8024463059512837285#editor   January 7, 2014   By   Peter Enns   15 Comments Apparently,   Bible reading   is way down in churches, and   Biblica  has dug into finding out why. Here’s what I learned at the   conference I attended last week sponsored by Biblica (see  here ). Bible reading is down because people read it in fragments, a-historically, in isolation. In fragments,  meaning in the verse level rather than in large sections. A focus on verses not only encourages prooftexting but  prevents readers from seeing the larger points of biblical works–whether we are talking about a letter like Romans, or large narratives such as we find in the   Old Testament . To remedy this problem, Biblica has formatted the NIV (New International Version, 2011) without chapter and verse numbers,   calling   it   The Books of the Bible , which...