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Made For This with Jennie Allen

How To Love Reading Your Bible Again with David Platt

Made For This with Jennie Allen

Made For This with Jennie Allen

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, Jennie sits down with longtime friend, pastor, and author David Platt to talk about a simple, powerful way to study your Bible. David shares how his life was changed by time with the underground church—and how their hunger for the Word led to what is now Secret Church, a global simulcast Bible study attended by tens of thousands each year. David also unpacks the method behind his new book, How to Read the Bible: A Simple Guide to Deeper Intimacy with God, introducing a four-part framework to help you engage Scripture in a way that’s personal, transformative, and deeply rooted in truth. Whether you’re new to Bible study or looking to reignite your time in the Word, this episode will give you clarity, encouragement, and a fresh passion to draw near to God. If you’ve never tried Boll & Branch sheets — this is your sign. They’re 100% organic cotton, insanely soft, and they keep getting better with every wash. Right now, get 20% off sitewide at bollandbranch.com/madeforthis. Exclusions apply. HELPFUL LINKS 📖 How to Read the Bible by David Platt — Order here! 🎥 Watch Secret Church — secretchurch.org CONNECT ON SOCIALS Instagram | YouTube | Facebook | TikTok | Pinterest

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0:00.0

This is Jenny Allen and you are listening to the Made for This podcast.

0:12.0

Well, guys, I love this because I get to have one of my good friends on.

0:18.0

And we're going to talk about something so helpful, so helpful. And you know him,

0:24.4

you love him, David Platt. Welcome to Made for this. It is great to be with you, Jenny Allen,

0:30.7

on Made for this. Everybody's going to love this because we're actually going to talk about

0:33.9

studying your Bible and you have a really simple way to do that. But before we get to that,

0:38.8

can we just talk about a few other things? You just finished underground church.

0:43.6

Yeah, yeah. Tell everybody about this because they can still watch it, I saw you say,

0:47.9

online. Yeah, yeah. It's so secretchurch.org. But we, I mean, it's a one year thing we did. This is the 25th one we've done.

0:56.7

So we started this years ago based on time I had with underground house churches where they

1:05.8

have to meet in secret. And when I first got together with these brothers and sisters in this one part of Asia,

1:14.0

I mean, it was eight to 12 hours a day in secret locations where these brothers and sisters,

1:21.6

when they get together around the word, it's, well, one, they're going to make the most of that

1:26.0

time because it's costly like that the I remember

1:29.1

just asking them like what would happen if we were caught and they're like well we could go to

1:35.5

prison we could lose our land we could never be seen again like this the word is literally worth

1:43.4

their lives and for me I would likely in that setting just be

1:48.1

like deported out of the country, like kicked out. But I mean, this was, there was so much at

1:53.8

stake for them. And I remember when came back from that, sitting around with brothers and sisters

1:59.3

back here, like, why don't we study the word like that for

2:03.2

it doesn't have to be eight hours so just so we decided hey let's do this one night let's spend

2:08.5

six seven hours just diving into the word uh late into the night and praying for our persecuted

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