How long should it take?
Long enough to read the passage twice and exchange one sentence each. A timer is optional. A finished sentence is the end.
Practice
Read the same passage with another person
Pick one short passage. Both people read it, silently or aloud. Each person writes one sentence: what the passage says, or what they do not yet understand. Then you read those sentences to each other. The point is to see the passage, not to agree quickly. Scripture Journey’s couple-oriented book guides are a separate shelf for books written to be read that way. This page is the sitting itself.
The order
Agree on the reference before you open the conversation. If you each bring a different chapter, you are not in the same sitting.
Write before you talk. Talking first lets the faster voice replace the passage.
Ask one question of the text, not of the other person: what does this paragraph actually say? Save advice for after that sentence exists.
What to do with disagreement
If you heard different things, read the disputed lines again out loud. Mark the disagreement as a reread, not as a winner.
A study page can be a third voice. Read Day 1 after you have each said your sentence, so the note does not speak first.
What this is not
It is not counseling, and it is not a test of the relationship. Stop the sitting if it stops being about the passage.
It does not require an account. If you use the app’s journal, Support says those entries stay on the account that wrote them.
Questions
Which passage should we use?
Use the sermon passage if you both heard the sermon. Otherwise use one chapter you can both finish. The one-chapter guide is the pace.