I'm sure you have seen those puzzles on Facebook that have three steps--and you have to figure out the answer using hamburger buns, ice cream cones, boxes, bluebirds, etc.  They always have an obvious visual catch.  They are observation oriented.

And then there are the math problems, which have proved to me (by at all the different answers people get) that nobody learned anything in their math classes.  The most fundamental rule of mathematical procedure, is to always multiply before you add.  The problems will look somewhat like the following:  4+2x3+1 = ?  The most common wrong answer being 19.  (Answer is 11)

It makes me wonder how anybody passed their classes in math.  If you don't know what to do first, you will never get where you are going.  And the same thing is true in life.

If you don't learn your ABC's in kindergarten or first grade, you won't be able to read when you learn how to put the letters together.    But even if you can read, unless you know what the words mean, you won't understand.  Learn must learn vocabulary.  And vocabulary is a lifelong accumulation.

They say that the Eskimos have over seventy different words for frozen water.  They depend on those descriptions because they are a constant force of nature in their lives.  But here in the lower US, we only need a few: ice, snow, sleet, slush, and hail are about all words we need.

Reading the Bible takes vocabulary--some that is not in use today--if you are using the King James translation.  Thee, thou, thine, etc. from the old King's English.  I like to read it, but I certainly don't recommend it for a new Christian.  And I would never start someone off in the Old Testament.

I would say the first step, if you are not in the habit of reading the Bible, would be to get an overview of Jesus' life.  Four books tell about that: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.  Pick one.  Then "Acts" tells what happens next.  For the second step, I would read the book of Acts.  The rest of the New Testament consists of letters that were written to people and churches.  They are short.  I would pick Romans.  If you read those three small books (if you can call eight or nine pages a book) you have the basics of the Christian religion.  Who, what, when, where, why and how.  It will change your life.