One of the good things about teaching through the Bible verse-by-verse style is being forced to teach every chapter.
There are 1,189 chapters in the Bible. Some are more popular than others.
While 1 Samuel has some of the most popular (David and Goliath?), there are also many that you’ve never heard taught.
It is often in studying these chapters that I am the most surprised. Though not as popular, they can give important context, necessary backstory for future climax, lesser-known testimonies to God’s faithfulness, or parallels to Jesus Christ.
We have not hit a chapter yet in our study of 1 Samuel that has not delivered good on the promise that “all scripture is profitable” and “for our learning” (Rom 15:4).
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Studying popular chapters of the Bible can be a good exercise. Afterall, they are usually popular for good reason.
Then again, sometimes they are popular because the chapter is easy to understand, or its lesson is inoffensive to unbelievers.
Studying every chapter can be very rewarding in that you are required to learn every lesson God provides – even when those lessons are unpopular, hard, or require ears of faith to hear.
For your edification,
Justin “chapter by chapter” Johnson