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Written by Pete Grieg, a contemporary British pastor and author.

A survey of forty thousand people aged between eight and eighty discovered that reading the Bible has a profound effect on both our mental health and our spiritual growth, but only if it is done at least four times a week. Once or twice a week provides a negligible benefit, and three times results in only a slight improvement. But among those who study the Bible at least four times a week, there is a dramatic inflection point, a sharp uplift in their mental and spiritual well-being. In fact, these regular Bible readers are 30% less likely to feel lonely, 32% less prone to anger issues, 60% less likely to report feelings of spiritual stagnation, and 228% more likely to be active in sharing their faith. If we want to discern the voice of Jesus so that his words become deeply familiar to our souls, we must get to know what he is actually like. And, of course, we can do this most effectively by absorbing the four multifaceted accounts of his life and teaching presented so beautifully in the Gospels.

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.  [2 Timoty 3:16]