How do Protestant/Evangelical Churches ensure they cover ALL Bible Verses?

Question

Catholics dogma has the Bible laid out so that it is read in full every three years ... mixing Old Testament . . . Psalms ... Gospels ... and additional New Testaments (Romans) ... so it's guaranteed that we read the\ Bible in full at mass ... but I was wondering how the other Christians guarantee this.

Answer 1

Calvary Chapel (non-denominational) starts in Genesis and teaches vs. by vs. until they reach the end of Revelation. Then they start over. We do not just READ it. We study it in context.

"Every church should have a method of systematically encouraging the congregation to read through the whole Bible." - Halley's Bible Pocket Handbook, page 867

My pastor, Chuck Smith, had taught verse by verse through the entire Bible 7 times by 1989. He said the following...

"I discovered that it was much easier to get sermons when I was confined to one small area for my text, and the quality of the sermons were much better, for I was able to spend much more consecrated study on the next text I was going to be speaking from than I did when I was hodgepodging around the whole Bible. When you have to find your text within a certain portion of Scripture, it makes you really push and do some consecrated and valuable studying. So I took up Mr. Halley's suggestion, taking the people straight through the Bible and that's been my practice ever since."

Answer 2

The reason that the Catholic church lays out it`s readings like they do is important ,Christ is the reason, because we can see that there is a continuous thread or reference pointing to the Savior from Genesis through the various books of the Old Testament including the Psalms were it becomes even more evident and finally to the Gospels were Christ the awaited Messiah is seen plainly and in fulfillment of the Father`s promise.
As it has been said before,you cannot really grasp the full meaning of the Good News until you have studied the bad news of the fall and its consequences, and in the Old Testament.

Answer 3

There is no Biblical requirement that the Scriptures be read in their entirety during Church services. Therefore, this isn't something Protestants are aiming for.

Instead, Protestant services cover a variety of topics; most Pastors will quote extensively from the New and Old Testaments during sermons.

Individual believers are urged to study the Bible on their own and/or with study groups.

Answer 4

Scala Paradisi -- the Stairway to Heaven -- describes a 4-runged ladder to Heaven, each rung being one of the four steps in method of Bible reading.

lectio (reading): "looking on Holy Scripture with all one's will and wit"

meditatio (meditation): "a studious insearching with the mind to know what was before concealed through desiring proper skill"

oratio (prayer): "a devout desiring of the heart to get what is good and avoid what is evil"

contemplatio (contemplation): "the lifting up of the heart to God tasting somewhat of the heavenly sweetness and savour"

Answer 5

I hate to tell you this, but the entire Bible is NOT covered by the readings in the Catholic Mass every three years. A great deal of the Bible is covered, but not all of it.

Example - the dietery laws in Deuteronomy are never mentioned at Mass.

Answer 6

That's actually one thing that they can do. You look at the year and set yourself on a schedule (I know it worked while I was an Evangelical). It is, however, still insufficient (you can't remember them all), and you can't relate them together always in a proper form as the liturgical calendar teaches you to do.

Answer 7

Sorry to disillusion you, but even the Catholic church doesn't read the ENTIRE Bible. They don't do all the "begats" and they skip out a lot of the uncomfortable nasty stuff.
The Protestants actually refer to even less of the Bible.

Answer 8

It is one thing to read them; it is another to understand them, and appreciate their errors and self-contradictions. That requires more diligent study than most people have time for.