This week's email is a bit late. So if it's not useful as preparation for tomorrow's worship, I trust the following introduction and review of Bible Study method will be helpful every day as we "read, mark, learn and inwardly digest" the Holy Scriptures (BCP, p. 236)
As introduction or, for many of you, a reminder, of stable approach to reading the Bible, please watch a short, six-minute, You Tube video on inductive Bible Study.
This short video introduces the three steps of Observation, Interpretation (or Meaning), and Application. These three steps are what I use as my basic method each time I approach the Bible, whether in sermon preparation each week, or in my devotional readings each morning at prayer.
Following the Bible Overview by Matthias Media, I tend to summarize the steps as: Context, Observation, Meaning, Application.
Context: What in the Bible am I reading: a psalm, a story (narrative), a letter (epistle)?
Observation: Focus on the words on the page asking: Who, What, Where, When, How and Why?
Meaning (or interpretation): What do these words in their context communicate? What does this mean?
Application: In light of what the Bible says, what do I do?
This method can be a little cumbersome to learn. But I've found that once it becomes a habit of your basic approach to Bible study, then Bible study becomes much more enjoyable and practical.
The Sunday readings are:
Ecclesiastes 1:12-14; 2:1-7, 11, 18-23
Psalm 49:1-11
Colossians 3:5-17
Luke 12:13-21
Announcements
This Wednesday our Bible study following the 6pm Mass will cover the NT book of Philemon (a short, one-page letter from St. Paul). We will use this short letter to discuss and practice the Bible study method discussed above.
Blessings,
Fr Greg+
As introduction or, for many of you, a reminder, of stable approach to reading the Bible, please watch a short, six-minute, You Tube video on inductive Bible Study.
This short video introduces the three steps of Observation, Interpretation (or Meaning), and Application. These three steps are what I use as my basic method each time I approach the Bible, whether in sermon preparation each week, or in my devotional readings each morning at prayer.
Following the Bible Overview by Matthias Media, I tend to summarize the steps as: Context, Observation, Meaning, Application.
Context: What in the Bible am I reading: a psalm, a story (narrative), a letter (epistle)?
Observation: Focus on the words on the page asking: Who, What, Where, When, How and Why?
Meaning (or interpretation): What do these words in their context communicate? What does this mean?
Application: In light of what the Bible says, what do I do?
This method can be a little cumbersome to learn. But I've found that once it becomes a habit of your basic approach to Bible study, then Bible study becomes much more enjoyable and practical.
The Sunday readings are:
Ecclesiastes 1:12-14; 2:1-7, 11, 18-23
Psalm 49:1-11
Colossians 3:5-17
Luke 12:13-21
Announcements
This Wednesday our Bible study following the 6pm Mass will cover the NT book of Philemon (a short, one-page letter from St. Paul). We will use this short letter to discuss and practice the Bible study method discussed above.
Blessings,
Fr Greg+
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