Description In today's culture, it has become apparent that people are reading the Bibles less and less. If this trend continues, within 30 years the Bible will be a thing of the past for most followers of Jesus. One of the main reasons why younger generations aren't reading the Bible is its format. The gridlock of chapters and verses keeps them from seeing the stories, songs, poems, and dreams that naturally fill its pages. After Chapters and Verses shows that this grid is a late and artificial addition to the Scriptures. It tells how the International Bible Society (now Biblica) designed a new format to enable people to read and understand the Scriptures much better without chapters and verses. And it describes the exciting new approaches that people using this format already take to reading, studying, preaching, teaching, and engaging God's Word. The Rev. Dr. Christopher R. Smith is a freelance writer and independent scholar who lives in East Lansing, Michgan. He pastored local churches for nearly twenty years and is now a volunteer staff member with Graduate InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Michigan State University. He was a consulting editor to Biblica for The Books of the Bible, an edition of the Bible that presents the biblical books according to their natural literary outlines, without chapters and verses.