Inductive Bible Study Method

I could have gotten through seminary [Gordon-Conwell no less in the 1970’s] and I all I had to do was read 5 chapters of Genesis, Psalm 20, Paul’s letters, the book of Acts.  How is that for a thorough MDiv over view of the whole Bible?

The New Faces of Christianity
Believing the Bible in the Global South
Philip Jenkins

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We salute Inter-Varsity and Urbana for focusing on Ephesians as an inductive method for setting up all of the Urbana functions.  This was extremely edifying.

Traina writes that application is bringing a passage to bear on a contemporary situation based on it’s universal truthfulness. [p.215, Methodical Bible Study]

What is Bible interpretation?  Train answers, “It means recapturing the attitudes, motives, thoughts, and emotions of its writers and of those concerning whom they wrote.” [p.94, Methodical Bible Study]

Former Princeton professor Howard Kuist defined observation as “the art of seeing things as they really are.”  To which, Robert Traina concluded that observation, “then is is essentially awareness.”  Methodical Bible Study, Robert Traina, p.31.

Writing Out The Word…

Kirsten Vandervelde tours with a theatrical production of Don Richardson’s Peace Child. In her down time, she greets people as a receptionist for our missions ministry here in Montana.
As a 20 year old, she heard me teach on the value of daily Bible reading. This particular morning, […]

It is amazing to me how few Inductive Bible Study courses there are in seminaries, Christian colleges and universities. I remember Dr. J. Christy Wilson Jr. tell us at Gordon-Conwell in the mid 1970’s that we should master the English Bible. Interestingly, his father Dr. J. Christy Wilson said the same thing a […]

As I study through the Word of God I am constantly reminded that we cannot impart what we do not possess. This means that not only for our own sake, but for the sake of our listeners we must daily drink from the living water. I can think of no better way of doing this […]

Paul told the Corinthians that they were a letter written from God.  This is  really a picture of application isn’t it.  We are the only Scriptures that some people will ever read.  Whether we obey or disobey–this underlines the importance of application.  “Be doers of the Word and not hearers only deceiving ourselves.”