Reading the Bible is the most inexpensive thing you can do to enrich your life—not reading it is the most expensive mistake.
In the back of every CMN Majoring in Men workbook, we have a Bible Reading Guide to help you read the Bible through in a year. It may sound ambitious, but think again.
A man complained to one CMN leader that it would take "so long" to read the whole Bible. The leader answered, "Well, how long are you going to be a Christian?" Bam!
One man emailed his thanks: "I never thought I'd get back with my wife. Now I have. I never thought I could read the whole Bible. Now I have." Brilliant. High value!
Streaming sermons and listening to downloads are great technologies, but they do not compare to the skill of reading. Before America's founding, 70-90% of the men could read, which helped unite them to win the Revolution.
Nations whose populations cannot read often have multiple revolutions because they depend on street meetings and word-of-mouth, which doesn't bring a man wisdom - and doesn't give men a blueprint from which to build their lives on truth. Sounds like a generation being raised on TikTok and Instagram.
Scriptural illiteracy is one of the greatest dangers to our world today.
Centuries ago, the Gutenberg Press was a game-changer. Why? Because when the Bible was distributed to everyone, men learned to read. Today, we stand on the shoulders of those men and the advancements they made through their ability to read.
Two huge things: The average man reads fewer than ten books in his lifetime after leaving school. And, reading is linked to greater cognitive health, meaning less reading results in greater cognitive decline. Get healthy, stay sharp - read.
Too often, fathers try to solve their children’s problems rather than read the Bible to them and let the Truth do its own powerful work. Don't wait for a crisis. Just read the Bible's sound principles, day by day, to your children. When the crisis comes, the groundwork for the answers is already there. In 1644, Massachusetts even passed a law making fathers responsible for teaching children to read. Good idea.
Reading is not a matter of dollars and cents, time or no time. Reading God's Word, becoming scripturally literate, is a matter of life and death.
I write this to you because I know you must do this - you can do this, and I love you, so I want God's best for your life. Read, grow, win.
