Wandering Through the Gospels for 45 Days
Hey y’all! Thanks for joining us as we Wander Through the Gospels for 45 days. At the end of these 45 days, we will have completely read through 4 books of the Bible. If you would like to participate in Wandering Through the Gospels for 45 days with us, we will be using #WanderingThroughGodsWord!
We will loosely be going chronologically through the Gospels. We say “loosely” because we are going by chapter. Most chronological read-throughs hop around a lot through the Gospels verse by verse. We have done this and it is very beneficial, but we have found it isn’t the easiest way to do a reading plan. We came up with doing it this way to get the chronological context but still make it easy and simple to follow.
We started this initiative because we saw a need to help people get into God’s word in a simple way. So many rely on devotionals (most of which teach very little at best) or books on the Bible. Some of those can be helpful, but why not go to the untainted source? And no matter how much we like or trust an author, it’s important to remember is that commentary and notes included in study Bibles, book studies, and devotionals are not inspired and are written by fallible humans. (If you would like a study Bible we do recommend this one and this one - affiliate links).
As always, we would like to reiterate we are not scholars. Just regular people trying to serve our brothers and sisters in Christ by helping them learn. This reading plan is simple. No frills here. But we would like to include a few things to help you before you get started.
It’s important to understand we are NOT in the Bible. We should strive to read the text as it was intended. We are not David, Daniel, or anyone else in the Bible. So here are some things to understand and ask ourselves when beginning to read Scripture.
Things to understand about Scripture in general:
1) It’s our source for divine revelation from God, His truth, and guidance
2) The Bible instructs us in how to love, obey, and worship God
3) It’s infallible, without error, and complete. Knowing that allows us to have a source for checking everything someone claims about our faith.
How to go about reading Scripture:
1) read the passage IN CONTEXT, with PROPER interpretation and evaluation, and think on these things
Here’s some questions to help you with this:
1) Who is writing/speaking?
2) Who was the original audience?
3) What do the verses before/after say?
4) What do the chapters before/after say?
5) What does the rest of the Bible say about this?
6) What’s the historical, cultural, and/or geographical background?
ERRORS TO AVOID when reading Scripture:
1) Do NOT make the Bible say what you want it to say. It isn’t a book about us or to make us feel good. There will be texts that reveal things (sins) we need to correct in our lives. That’s not always easy or comfortable, but it’s necessary for us to be more Christ-like. We need to let the Bible say what God intended it to say.
2) Do NOT ask “what does this mean to me?” Again, the Bible isn’t about you. It’s God’s book. It’s about God.
That was a lot! But necessary. We had to learn all of this when we started reading our Bible. It’s just not taught today very often, but it’s critical to rightly understand Scripture.
So without further ado, here is the reading plan for Wandering through the Gospels for 60 days. (Videos/links y’all might find helpful will be next to the text they are the most relevant to).
Day 1:
Luke 1, John 1, & Matthew 1
Day 2:
Luke 2
https://youtu.be/i_Ixw7zkyys
Day 3:
Matthew 2-3
https://youtu.be/dGoeAkLJzog
Day 4:
Mark 1 & Luke 3
Day 5:
Luke 4 & Matthew 4
Day 6:
Luke 5 & John 2
Day 7:
John 3-4
https://youtu.be/UrXEO5mAUv8
https://youtu.be/A8DXSmESOdU
Day 8:
Matthew 8 & Mark 2
Day 9:
John 5 & Matthew 12
Day 10:
Mark 3 & Luke 6
Day 11:
Matthew 5-6
Day 12:
Matthew 7 & Matthew 9
Day 13:
Luke 7 & Matthew 11
Day 14:
Matthew 13 & Luke 8
Day 15:
Mark 4-5
Day 16:
Matthew 10 & 14
Day 17:
Mark 6 & Luke 9
Day 18:
John 6 & Matthew 15
Day 19:
Mark 7 & Matthew 16
Day 20:
Mark 8 & Matthew 17
Day 21:
Mark 9 & Matthew 18
Day 22:
John 7-8
Day 23:
John 9-10
Day 24:
Luke 10-11
Day 25:
Luke 12-13
Day 26:
Luke 14-15
Day 27:
Luke 16-17
Day 28:
John 11 & Luke 18
Day 29:
Matthew 19 & Mark 10
Day 30:
Matthew 20-21
Day 31:
Luke 19
Day 32:
Mark 11 & John 12
Day 33:
Matthew 22 & Mark 12
Day 34:
Matthew 23 & Luke 20
Day 35:
Luke 21 & Mark 13
Day 36:
Matthew 24-25
Day 37:
Matthew 26 & Mark 14
Day 38:
Luke 22 & John 13
Day 39:
John 14-15
Day 40:
John 16-17
Day 41:
Matthew 27 & Mark 15
Day 42:
Luke 23 & John 18
Day 43:
John 19 & Matthew 28
Day 44:
Mark 16 & Luke 24
Day 45:
John 20-21
Hooray! You did it! You spent 45 days in God’s Word and completed 4 books of the Bible! Praise be to the Lord! We hope you found it edifying. Thank you for Wandering Through the Gospels with us! We will continue to add resources as we come across them, so feel free to come back and do it again or share it with others. As always to God be the glory!