Bible reading is the number one predictor of spiritual health and growth. You know this from your ministry, and it’s the impetus behind our work at American Bible Society. How can we get people more engaged with Scripture—reading it regularly, understanding it, and living it out?

As we seek new strategies, we know we need to partner with those who share our goals—like you. So we’re in listening mode, learning all we can from those who are already working hard promoting Bible engagement. The following questions represent the beginning of a vital conversation.

In most of these questions, we’re asking for your best guess, even if you don’t have precise stats right now. But we hope that this process—and the conversation to follow—will spur you to ask the same questions in your church that we’re asking at a national level.