Bible Reading Schedule, Dumbed Down?

Slidin Fast

Has any body noticed that the bible reading schedule has been reduced to one chapter per week. Does any one know if this is a policy change or something temporary? At this rate the complete cycle will take 22 years plus.

St George of England

Yes it is being dumbed down like everything else WT connected.

My page marker is for 2016 Bible reading schedule. It shows:-

Oct 3: Proverbs 1-6
Oct 10: Proverbs 7-11
Oct 17: Proverbs 12-16
Oct 24: Proverbs 17-21
Oct 31: Proverbs 22-26
Nov 7 Proverbs 27-31

So it just shows though I suspect they will say you can now dig deeper

George

HereIam60

I also have wondered about this. Allegedly it is to provide more time for meditation and reflection, which it does, but I also wonder if it's an intentional stalling while the Governing Body and their writers work on a major overhaul in interperetation.

We spent most of last year on Psalms and are just underway in Proverbs. If one chapter per week continues it will be a long long time before we reach the Gospels and Christian letters again. Lip service is still given to Read The Bible Daily and by reading 3 chapters a day you can read it in a year., but this schedule is the Weekly Bible Reading for the mid-week Christian Life and Ministry meeting.. The Spiritual Gems part, where people can share what they learned from the reading, is one of the few opportunities for individual expression left. I would say locally that 90% of the comments just repeat Watchtower quotes, but there still are occasional original or independent thoughts expressed.

They've done away with type/antitype teaching, and most of the old Revelation book explanations will likely have to be discarded, (such as the trumpet blasts being resolutions read at long-ago conventions).

For a time I thought a new Revelation study volume might be in the works, as a couple years ago there were 2 Watchtower study articles giving an overview of Revelation, which contained time-line charts of the sort used in the most recent study publications. If there were plans for this they are possibly on hold, as the next book to be studied congregationally is the children's 'Lessons You Can Learn from the Bible'

I can never decide if there really is some Master Plan, or if the GB has no clue where they are going. Sometimes suspect it's possibly both, with some members " in the know" and some in the dark..

raymond frantz

The current gb are incapable to produce any meaningful changes they are not scholars dumbing down is the only way forward

no-zombie

Judging from the very poor participation rate in question and answer parts, I can only conclude that very few members of the congregation (Elders and Servants included) don't prepare for the meetings unless they have a part. Thus it makes no differences to the publishers if the GB assigns 5 chapters to read per week ... or just one.

Few will doing it anyway.

Anony Mous

Where are the days you had to read the Bible in 2 years before being considered for pioneering or elder. I remember special pioneers/Gilead/Bethel had to read the entire Bible during their class (several months) in order to graduate.

If you can’t read a chapter per day (5-15 minutes), then you are probably not going to read it 1 verse per day, plus you lose all the context at that pace.

Jeffro

They’re doing one chapter per week for Proverbs, but then returning to multiple chapters per week for subsequent books.

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1102025214?q=Bible+reading+schedule&p=doc

Strange (“from a human standpoint” 🤣). I couldn’t be bothered examining it more deeply (subject to change without notice), but I suspect there will be longer passages to read for books of the Bible that they recognise as having problematic verses or historical context that conflict with JW doctrines. (Chapter length will likely also still have some bearing, but that alone doesn’t explain the inconsistency.)

FedUpJW

I can never decide if there really is some Master Plan, or if the GB has no clue where they are going.

There ain't no Master Plan, that's for sure.

Bible Reading Schedule, Dumbed Down?

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