In my years of obsession against versejacking, I've often heard and thought that the way we often do "devotions" can be pretty damaging. Freewheeling devotional thoughts on a verse or less does not constitute knowing the Bible or even getting to know it.
I had a conversation today where we were talking about jumping around from verse to verse in different books in the Bible. The positive aspect of Bible engagement is getting to know a story, loving it, and living it well (akin to Peterson's Eat This Book). We form a relationship with the story. However, if we skip blindly about, we commit the worst sort of relational damage. And perhaps that activity is best called "devotional promiscuity."
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