Originally Posted by NaphtaliPress

Most ministers even with two worship services a week are not going to get through the whole Bible, particularly if they preach like a Puritan and cover only a verse or two at a time.This is the wisdom in the Westminster Directory for Public Worship, where it suggest reading one chapter from the OT and NT with some commentary afterwards in each worship service. In my old church we did this for twenty odd years going through the OT once every seven years and the NT twice in that time, plus two trips through the Psalms. Of course this can add 30 or 40 or more minutes to the length of the service.