How to study the bible week 2: What is the Bible?
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Week 2:Observati
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DWELLING IN THE WORD
Dwelling in the Word• Listen to Luke 10:1-12• Respond to one of the following:
– What captured your imagination?– What question would you like to ask a
Bible Scholar about the text?
Dwelling in the Word• Find a reasonably friendly looking
stranger and listen him/her into free speech. You may take notes.
• You will get three minutes each to share your responses.
Dwelling in the Word
• This is _______, and he/she said...
• What do we hear in this tonight?
WHAT IS THE BIBLE?
A History of the Word of God
ISRAEL PRIMITIVE CHURCH
CAPT I V I TY
History of the WORD OF GOD
Wordof God
WORD
of GodCanon
Wordof God
Canon
Abraham - Malachi400B.C. - Christ Christ – 400 A.D.
oral oral
EZRA
LAWHISTORYWISDOMMAJOR PROPHETSMINOR PROPHETS
GOSPELSHISTORYPAUL’S LETTERSGENERAL LETTERSPROPHECY
Genres
3 Views of Scripture
Just another
book
God’s Rules for Living
An accurate record of
humans in relation to
God
WHAT LUTHERANS THINK ABOUT THE BIBLE
Scripture is...“The major significance of the Bible is not that it is a book, but rather that it reflects the life of the community of Israel and the primitive church as those communities sought to come to terms with the central reality that God was present with them in ways that regularly outran their ability to understand or cope.” -- Paul Achtmeier quoted in Revisioning Evangelical Theology by Grenz p. 122
The First Step of Bible Study
What was on the picture displayed on the screen when you entered the room?
OBSERVATION
Three Steps of Observation
See itBreak it
Build it
• Read with a pencil!
• Read different translations
See It
• Become a Detective!Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?
• What to Look For
See It
Terms
See ItTerms
Let’s drive on the drive so we can park at the park and play before the play. You down with that, homey?
• Become a Detective!• What to Look For
Terms Structure
See It
Structure All Scripture is –God-breathed <and> is useful for
1. teaching, 2. rebuking, 3. correcting and 4. training in righteousness,
--so that—(answers why?) the man of God may be
thoroughly equipped
--for--
every good work.-2 Timothy 3:16-17 (NIV)
See It
Structure
2 Timothy3:16-17
See It
• Become a Detective!• What to Look For
Terms Structure Literary Form
See It
Literary Form
See ItLAWHISTORYWISDOMMAJOR PROPHETS
GOSPELSHISTORYPAUL’S LETTERS
PROPHECY
• Become a Detective!• What to Look For
Terms Structure Literary Form
Atmosphere
See It
Atmosphere
“Lord clothe the facts with fascination. Help me crawl into the skin of these people – to see through their eyes, to feel with their fingers, to understand with their hearts, and to know with their minds.” Hendricks
See It
Three Steps of Observation
See itBreak it
Build it
Break itSix things to look for1. Things that are EMPHASIZED.2. Things that are REPEATED. 3. Things that are RELATED.4. Things that are ALIKE.5. Things that are UNLIKE.6. Things that are TRUE TO LIFE.
Build itCreate a chart that visually communicates the message of the text. Not what you think it MEANS, or how to APPLY it to your life, but one that shows what it SAYS.
TeachingReproof Correcting
Training
Build it
Rejoice! Rejoice! Rejoice! Rejoice! Rejoice! Prison for a
Purpose! Copy Christ! Don’t
Despair Over Dogs!
Think Right! Content, but Thankful.
Because of my chains, Christ is preached.
Make me proud by being
like Christ.
What those false teachers have is nothing
compared to knowing Christ.
You should stand firm and
think like Christ.
In Christ I’ve learned to be content in all things, but it
sure is nice to be
remembered by you.
1:1-29 2:1-30 3:1-21 4:1-9 4:10-23
Build it
JESUS 1:1-2:4
HOLY SPIRIT 2:5-47PETER - JEWS 3:1-8:3
PETER,JOHN, PHILIP 8:4-12:25
PAUL - GENTILES 8:4-12:25
PENTECOSTJERUSALEM
JUDEA & SAMARIA
THE ENDS OF THE EARTH