The living Word

If we look some different from Christianity we can find two typ es of different Christianity. There is the Bible lead groub and the “Holy Spirit “ leaded typ. A extreme example is: the Bible leaded search the answer always in the scripture and do not listen to the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit leaded will only listen to the Holy Spirit. I don’t know if you find this extreme example but I could imagine that you find the Bible leaded typ. I’m sure you need the Bible and the Holy Spirit. Because the bible is God’s word for us, there he tell us how he wants us to live. But we need also the Holly Spirit to have a personally relationship with God.
Why should we study the bible, it is a lot easier only to read and do what is written?
• Get to know how God really is and how he does things.
• Who the enemy is an how he does things
• The conquests of sin
• Who we are in Christ
• The promises of reconciles of God
And God wants not that we study because we have to… We should do it out of love to him, like in a relationship, we want to get to know him and not we have to know him.
You can take to three steps to study:

1. Observation
2. Interpretation
3. Application

Observation is looking was the text means, looking who has the text written, what about is the text, what is the background, culture, emotion…
Important is also that you have the context form that what you study. Then you can be like a detective looking for everything what the verse/passage/book says. The background is a very important thing (woman at well, she was sinner, Samarian an was one of the badest woman of the world in the eyes of the Pharisee). From this perspective it looks very different as we would say she was a good woman.

Interpretation looks like what mean the text to me, it is written to the original reader (all the letters). But it is written for us, we can use the bible. Interpretation means also to understand how the people taught, the writers viewpoint, what they did or not did What this meant in her couture, political, social live. Observation is a most to ask why.

Application is the Goal from the biblestudy. It’s how I can apply the stuff you study in my live and can understand God more an more James 7: 22-25

Sometimes it’s very good to have a study bible or commentaries, this are helps for Observation and Interpretation, but this is also made be man’s and sometimes they are different.

Question:
What are the tree steps of Bible study?
1. Observation
2. Interpretation
3. Application

How wll you study the bible differently now?
Looking more at couture, and the situation of the people, search the tressure and not only reading the bible

Why is the background of a book important for studying?
Because it can make the whole story differently if you see it form another perspective.