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What Bible Reading and Eating Have in Common

June 30, 2017 by: Dane Ortlund

Devotional Bible Reading Is for Everyone

Devotional reading of the Bible is not for some temperaments or personalities, as if some people need to read the Bible devotionally and other people can just read it more analytically.

Devotional Bible reading is vital for every believer in the same way that eating is vital for every human—it's just the way you're nourished. It's what you do to get stronger and grow.

So devotional reading of Scripture is to read it in the way that all believers need to if they are going to enjoy life with God.

Dane Ortlund

Dane C. Ortlund (PhD, Wheaton College) serves as senior pastor of Naperville Presbyterian Church in Naperville, Illinois. He is the author of Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers and Deeper: Real Change for Real Sinners. Dane and his wife, Stacey, have five children.

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