"Your Bible gets read in snippets during your "services."
You keep making this statement, ignorant of what takes place in our churches. Once again, let me explain to you how we handle the scriptures. I'll go slowly since you seem to have trouble following it. We read the scriptures, in context, whole passages, and then the Pastor exegetes the scriptures for anywhere from 30-45 minutes depending on the scriptures. Usually people are taking notes and following on in their bibles or on the screen where the scriptures are projected. Now I recognize that might seem heavy to you being used to 10 minute "Readers Digest" homilies, but we find it spiritually challenging and following what the early church did.
Most of us read the scriptures through in a year as part of our daily devotions and expect in our congregational gatherings to have the gifts of preaching and teaching exercised.
Now, as for your comment about the "10 minute readers digest homilies",we hear scriptures, i.e.,Old Testament Prophets, the Psalms, the New Testament Epistles, and the Gospels,every Sunday. You cannot say the about Protestant churches and you and I both know it.
Perhaps things are different at your church - one of the, what, million protestant sects?
However, the snake handling pentacostal calvinist wannabeatelevangelist "churches" here typically only use snippets.
Hooray, blue, that's a great description for our ignorant friends who don't think protestants know anything about the Bible or even use it in our services. Bible believing churches always have scriptures and usually the sermon is based on scripture. Our pastor wants all of us to read through the Bible every year.