As one of my takeaways from attending the Willow Creek Leadership Conference last month, I am going to change up my Bible reading schedule. I’ve been pretty consistent with my latest plan for the past few months, but I think that I encountered a couple of drawbacks. The first was that I didn’t always get the daily reading at the same time throughout the day, so I wasn’t able to setup a regular rhythm of reading at a set time. The second is that by reading short passages everyday, I wasn’t able to find a consistent application throughout the week.

Bill Hybels in the first session of the conference shared about how he would read through the same Bible passage everyday until it became like a mantra. I think that might help me to get more out of my daily reading and also delve a little deeper into these set passages.

The idea of reading the Bible as a mantra reminded me of when we did Lectio Divina [wikipedia] in our church plant a few years back. I think I could try to incorporate that into some of my Bible reading, maybe not everyday, but at least once a week.