It's essential to growth. It's essential to maturity. It's essential for equipping you, training you, so that you might be an available, clean, sharp instrument in His hands to accomplish His purposes.

My greatest fear is not your failure, but your success.

You focus on the depth of your relationship [with God]; let Him determine the scope of your ministry

The secret to concentration is elimination.

Jesus never discipled one-on-one.

There's an old saying that nothing good happens fast. I don't know if that's altogether true, but it does have some bearing on Bible study.

So the first reason for studying Scripture is that it is a means of spiritual growth. There is none apart from the Word. It is God's primary tool to develop you as an individual.