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‘I Don’t Have Time to Read Scripture’: Bad Reasons We Neglect the Bible

“You’re going too fast. You’re making careless mistakes.”I can still hear my dad saying this as he was helping me with my math in the basement. A worksheet or quiz lay in front of us, and its message was clear: I know how to do the problems; I’m just not doing them carefully. “Ugh,” I groan, “this takes forever! When can I be done?”Decades later, I find myself sitting at my own kitchen table next to a math sheet belonging to my kids. This sheet says the same thing as the one from 25 years ago: s