many protestant friends of mine harp on the importance of reading the bible daily, as the catholic church recommends, but with one admonition...
studying the bible alone or in groups, without the guidance of the church as the keeper of the whole deposit of the faith, you tend to have a lot of personal interpretaton that leads down the wrong road....and you could end up with many different churches all claiming the their interpretations are correct.....
oh wait.....if im not mistaken, something like that happened a few centuries back.....hmmmm
unless the “keeper” has drifted seriously off course, hence the reformation.
LOL
We used to do a Bible study with some Evangelical friends of ours and everytime we read they all had different understandings of what was read. I also have to admit that I got very annoyed when we prayed because they pretty much just prayed for themselves and what they wanted, not what God wanted and not FOR others. I figured that it wasn’t very good for my spiritual life. We stopped going.
I’d much rather go to a prayer group that does the rosary and the Divine Mercy chaplet, along with spontaneous prayer.