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For many of us who grew up in the evangelical world, it is taken for granted that Christians have a daily “Quiet time” — a few minutes put aside, usually at the beginning of the day, to read the Bible and pray in preparation for what comes next. And yet, historically, that is a relatively new practice.
How Daily Bible Reading Started
For the first 1500 years of the Christian church, access to Bible manuscripts was extremely limited. Hand-made copies were enormously expensive and incredibly valuable and rare. Few churches would have access to more than a portion of Scripture, and these were usually kept safely locked away in monastery scriptoriums and the libraries of the wealthy. And, of course, literacy was very limited. And the texts were only available in Greek, Hebrew, and Latin.
The stories and message of the Bible would only reach the masses through oral retellings of stories, passages, and sayings learned by heart from itinerant friars, ministers, and missionaries. Stories would be encapsulated in the stained glass of cathedrals, and
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