The following quote is excerpted from Bonhoffer’s ruminations on reading the Scriptures in community in Life Together, particularly as a family.
As a whole the Scriptures are God’s revealing Word. Only in the infiniteness of its inner relationships, in the connnection of Old and New Testaments, of promise and fulfillment, sacrifice and law, law and gospel, cross and resurrection, faith and obedience, having and hoping, will the full witness to Jesus Christ the Lord be perceived.
He concludes that readings from Psalms is not sufficient. In addition, he argues for chapter length readings from both Old and New Testaments. Aversion to such lengthy readings, he claims, should “fill us with profound shame” and that “both adult and child wil never finish aquiring knowledge of its (Scripture) story.” Agree or disagree?