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Read the Book
Advertising executive and writer Bruce Barton called it The Book Nobody Knows.
Presidents, monarchs and judges place their
hands on it when they swear into office. Witnesses in trials place one hand on it
while they swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Many
brides carry it at their weddings.
It sits unobtrusively in desk and dresser drawers of many hotels and motels. Most residences have at least one, and often it occupies a place of honor on the mantel, coffee table or nightstand, where it gives the impression of being read daily.
If it were listed by booksellers, it would perpetually make the best-seller lists, with millions of copies sold and given away year after year. It has been translated into more than 2,000 languages and dialects.
This book is, of course, the Bible.
But, popular though it is, how many people ever take the time to read it?
Last year a survey by the Barna Research Group, a research firm specializing in religious issues, found that only one in three Americans read the Bible regularly or could name the writers of the four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John). Not even half of those surveyed could name even five of the Ten Commandments. Most indicated they find the Bible irrelevant.
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