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I summarised all 1,189 chapters of the Bible on Twitter - one chapter per day, one tweet per chapter.

The initial goal was to focus my own Bible reading. I looked for the key idea in each chapter, adding as little of my own interpretation as possible. And I thought it would be interesting to share what I'd come up with friends on Twitter. (This was back in 2010, when Twitter was still a fairly new thing!)

To my great surprise, the @biblesummary account gained nearly twelve thousand followers in its first two weeks and was featured in news stories all over the world. The project quickly took on a secondary purpose as an introduction to Scripture for people who hadn't read it before.

I took the responsibility pretty seriously. Summarising was the first thing I did every single day for three-and-a-half years - including birthdays, Christmases, holidays, and even on the days my children were born. I posted the final summary to thirty thousand followers and another burst of media attention in November 2013.

I assumed that interest would die down after I finished. But to my surprise once again, the number of visitors to this website actually grew to many hundreds every day. I began hearing from people all over the world who were using the website as a reference tool: pastors using it for sermon preparation, teachers using it with their classes, students using it to help with their assignments, people using it as an aid to their devotional reading.

I published a book with all the summaries in paperback and on Kindle for those who find that helpful. But all the summaries will always be here on the website.

These summaries are no substitute for the real thing! They are offered here as a signpost to Scripture itself.