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How to Eat Your Bible by Nate Pickowicz 

This book is an excellent resource for both old and young Christians. It is a book that teaches all Christians to eat their Bible. This book is an excellent introduction to the basic principles of hermeneutics. If I were teaching a class on Hermeneutics for undergraduate students, this would be my go-to resource because of its simplistic theological tactic as well as its ideological premises of hermeneutics. 

How do you eat the Bible, you may ask? One bite at a time, just like one devours an elephant. The Bible is manna—bread from heaven prepared for us by God. As Christians, we can never finish eating the Bible. When we eat the Bible, God fills our vessel with more. All we are, as Christians, are vessels for Christ. 

Pickowicz believes that understanding the Bible begins with reading it. In his book How to Eat Your Bible: A Simple Approach to Learning and Loving the Word of God, he proposes a seven-year Bible reading plan. This is a plan I hope to embark on in the near future as it expells many different points of view for Christians as they read the Bible. This Bible reading plan is a good alternative to Bible-in-a-year reading plans that can keep us from taking our time to enjoy God’s word. Pickowicz says: “instead of plowing through Bible-in-a-year reading plans, students should embrace a long-term approach and focus on delving deeper into individual book studies.” And yet, he adds that “the purpose of the Seven Year Bible Plan is to motivate whole-Bible study over long periods of time. And while it’s certainly possible to follow the order I used, I suggest you create your own plan.”

How To Eat Your Bible is not an extreme or idealistic book. At less than 230 pages, this book does a good job of reaching its goal of explaining to Christians how to eat their Bible. The author does a good job, and I have even loaned this book out to a few of my pastor friends. 

I received the book from Moody Publishers in exchange for my honest review.

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