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David Platt’s Keys to Getting More Out of Your Bible Reading

David Platt still remembers the first time the Bible came alive for him. He was a teenager at a Christian conference when a worship leader put down his guitar and began quoting an entire chapter of Scripture from memory. No notes. No slides. Just the words, pouring out naturally.“I’d never heard somebody quote a whole chapter,” Platt says. “It was just so powerful… God’s Word flowing from them. That marked me.”He left that day with an older friend’s challenge ringing in his ears: Be that kind of