A Simple Way to Study the Bible"."
(from Halter and Smay, The Tangible Kingdom: Creating Incarnational Kingdom. Jossey Bassey; San Francisco, 2008", pg. 167.
Stretch out your right hand as far as you can. Next measure the distance between your thumb and pinky. Read that much scripture only. Preferably a contained story or idea. Like the second chapter of James, or a parable or a psalm like chapter 23. After you read the scripture, ask these five questions and let people answer as they feel led:
1) What did you like about what we just read?
2) What didn't you like?
3) Was there anything you did not understand?
4) What did you learn about God?
5) Regardless of where your faith is at now, if you wer to apply what we learned about God to something in your life this week, what would that look like?
Preaching or doing a complicated Bible Study can be really hard for people to do themselves. However, if people simply read the bible and then discuss the passage using questions such as the one above, then studying the Bible becomes much easier for everybody. People remember things they have discussed easier than things they have heard and it is generally more enjoyable to talk and interact about a subject than only to listen to a subject.
(from Halter and Smay, The Tangible Kingdom: Creating Incarnational Kingdom. Jossey Bassey; San Francisco, 2008", pg. 167.
Stretch out your right hand as far as you can. Next measure the distance between your thumb and pinky. Read that much scripture only. Preferably a contained story or idea. Like the second chapter of James, or a parable or a psalm like chapter 23. After you read the scripture, ask these five questions and let people answer as they feel led:
1) What did you like about what we just read?
2) What didn't you like?
3) Was there anything you did not understand?
4) What did you learn about God?
5) Regardless of where your faith is at now, if you wer to apply what we learned about God to something in your life this week, what would that look like?
Preaching or doing a complicated Bible Study can be really hard for people to do themselves. However, if people simply read the bible and then discuss the passage using questions such as the one above, then studying the Bible becomes much easier for everybody. People remember things they have discussed easier than things they have heard and it is generally more enjoyable to talk and interact about a subject than only to listen to a subject.
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