Rick Warren's Bible Study Methods: Twelve Ways You Can Unlock God's Word - PDF
نویسندگان: Rick Warren
خلاصه: For many years every time I heard a good sermon or some in-depth Bible teaching,I would leave the meeting frustrated, wondering to myself, How.did.he.find.all.of.that.in.his.text? I wanted to be able to discover those truths on my own. In addition,I often felt guilty because people were always telling me I ought to study the Bible,but when I tried to study it, I didn’t know what to do. So I would get discouragedand give up.Since those days of frustration, I have discovered that most Christians sin-cerely want to study their Bibles on their own, but they just don’t know how. Theydon’t need more exhortation (“You ought to study your Bible!”); they just needsome instruction on how to study the Word of God. And that is the purpose of thisbook — it is a “how-to” manual on Bible study. It assumes that you already knowthe importance of personal Bible study, that you have been exhorted many times tothis Christian duty, and that you have been waiting for someone to show you howto do it.The Bible teaches us that we cannot be disciples of Jesus Christ if we do nothave a regular intake of the Word of God. On one occasion Jesus said to his fol-lowers, “If you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed; and youshall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:31 – 32 KJV). Aswe look back through the history of the Christian church, we find that the commondenominator of every great man and woman of God is that they knew the Scrip-tures and spent consistent, regular time with the Lord in his Word.Never before in history has the Bible been more available to the Western world.Yet never before has there been such a famine of God’s Word. We have Bibles inhotels, motels, doctors’ offices, libraries, and most homes in America, yet mostpeople are ignorant of what the Scriptures have to say. We live in a day of biblicalilliteracy, even among many people of God.