A few Saturdays ago, on the 2nd of January, our family hosted our first Bible Marathon.  The marathon lasted about six hours, four of which we spent reading.  Mom got the idea for it from Gary Friesen’s book, Decision Making and the Will of God.   A couple other families joined us, as we read through Luke, and about three-quarters of Revelation.  This was the order of business:  

Each willing reader read a pre-assigned passage at a lectern in the middle of the room.  At every 7th chapter, we all stood and read a verse around in a circle, until we had finished the passage.  We had breaks every hour for discussion and prayer.  At the end of the Bible-reading time, we had dinner and fellowship.

I really appreciated the chance to go through a whole book of the Bible in such a short amount of time.  I don’t remember ever doing that before.  It was also more meaningful to me to hear others reading aloud, instead of just reading to myself.  Maybe I’m more of an auditory learner.  =)   I greatly enjoyed the Bible reading marathon, and I can’t wait to have another one!