Monday, April 28, 2008

FYI message follow-up

WOW!!! Yesterday was amazing at Relevant. I know that I told you that I would post some more Bible study helps for you today so here goes. I am going to give you the sketch outline from yesterday to make sure that you follow the proper format when approaching the Bible for Study.

1. Remember that you have to read it if you are going to ever get anything out of it
    • Read about what you dealing with right now.
      • anger
      • pride
      • lust
      • patience
      • questions about God
      • etc
A great source for this is Path Lights.

2. Find out the meaning of the passage that you are reading.
    • Ask the following questions
      • Who? is in the story? is it written too? wrote it?
      • What? is it about? kind of culture is it? type of people are they?
      • Where? are the people located? is the writer?
      • When? did the story take place?
      • Why? was the story written, did the situation happen?
A great resource for this type of bible study is God Squad .

This form of Biblical study is call the inductive Bible Study Method for a detailed program of inductive Bible Study Methods check out Into Thy Word.

3. Apply what you have read
    • Remember Information without application will never lead to transformation and the reason the Bible was written was for our transformation.
    • Application happens when you see your story as it related to the stories in the Bible not as you place yourself into the stories of the Bible.
4. Model what you have learned, examined, and applied
    • as we model what we have learned others will catch on as well.
    • people cannot follow what is not modeled.
I hope that this will help each of you continue in your journey with Jesus.

Remember what Starbucks says about what they supply.
  • flavors our senses
  • sweetens my disposition
  • stirs my imagination
  • nourishes my dreams
If Starbucks can do all of that I wonder what God could do in our lives if we would feast on His word.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Great stuff!!!!