Rooted in Truth

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Bible Reading: Finding Methods That Foster Consistency

Recording. And I'll be the facilitator. We discussed this about a month ago, six weeks ago, give or take, some of the questions that we would go over together that we think would be helpful to you. And if you have a burning question, hold on to it at the end.

We're going to keep 10 minutes at the end to discuss those questions. And if it's something that takes a really long time, we won't hold everybody up, but we'll talk to you after the session. So feel free to just come up here and ask us.

So we're going to begin. I've broken it up into two different categories. The first is Bible reading, and the second is theology or Bible study, and then secondly, theology. And as we look at Bible study, I think even as we approach the topic, I recognize that a lot of people are challenged even when it comes to Bible reading, consistently reading the Bible, right?

We live in an information age. We live in a distracted age. We live in a busy age with work and school and all kinds of demands upon our time. And so I'll ask the question, and then we can tackle it, brothers.

And it's not scripted, so we'll see where we go. But what encouragements would you give to someone who is seeking to read their Bible consistently and maybe is struggling.

To do that? Try this out. So one of the things you may have noticed by now that I'm not much of a bodybuilder type. And why has that not happened? It's not happened because every time I've tried it, I've not gotten much of a result.

Should I have the red circle or not? Yeah, that should be good. Give it a tap there. Great. Hey, magic. So every time I've tried it, I haven't really seen many results, and that's because my technique's bad.

I don't have a good routine. I don't know what I'm doing. I'm not good with diet. So basically, I have a bad structure, bad format, bad method. Therefore, every time I try it, I don't see results. Therefore, I'm like, tried it for two months, and never mind.

And I stopped lifting. Then maybe this is just a plea for help from some of you guys that know what you're doing. So I'm asking for free training. What I do enjoy is biking. And so I get on the bike. When I get done, I'm like, man, that was a blast.

I love that. I did that. And I'm looking forward to doing it again. So what do you think when I'm having an opportunity to exercise, what do you think I go for? I go for the thing I enjoy. And it probably has a lot to do with method.

My suspicion is that we struggle with consistency in our Bible reading because we don't really know how to do it well. And hence, we don't really enjoy it when we're doing it. And I'll just say biographically and experientially, the corner on that consistency question turned for me when I found ways to study the Bible where it was actually consistently fruitful.

So at this point in my life, every time I open up my Bible in the morning and read, I just love it. I'm like, nuts. I got to go. I have a job in life because I'd love to sit there for four hours and do it.

So my proposal would be if you're wanting to see better consistency, prayerfully seek out better methods of studying scripture. It is a beautiful book. It is a phenomenal book. And the appetite grows as you study it.

But probably we're struggling because we don't know how to study it.

Learning the Bible Through Discipleship and Expositional Preaching

Ryan, what would you add, if anything, brother? Very similar.

We do what we want to do. And so I have friends who will say things, well, you're a pastor, or you can memorize, I'm just an electrician, etc., etc. And yet, if I were to ask them, who's won the last three Stanley Cups?

How fast is Evan Bouchard's slap shot? How many assists did he have last year? They know all those things. I see even habits that we can have after the sermons on people right on their phone. We're quick to do certain things.

And it's because we always do what we want. We always do what we'll love. And so I'm not saying go to the prayer one right now, but ask that God would give you a great hunger for his word. I know it's like a very simplistic answer, but God did give us a will.

And us who are reformed can say that. And we do what we want. We do what we love. And so we need to have cultivated a greater love. And of course, this is where holy habits come in. Discipline is necessary.

But probably the reason why we don't read the Bible as much as we ought or as we should is because actually our heart's.

Not in it. Yeah. A thought that I have, if anyone's read Preaching and Preachers by Martin Lloyd Jones, I imagine most of you haven't, but some have, he speaks there, there's a little phrase that he uses that I've always kind of hung on to, which is, know thyself, right?

Know who you are, know your own constitution, know what helps you. I know for, I mean, my wife and my children are acquainted with this. I don't think the best always when I'm just sitting at a table with my Bible open in front of me.

But I can think very clearly if I've got the Bible open in front of me and I'm walking laps through my living room. Or I know some people think I'm funny. I once walked into a Canadian goose, but I like to read while I'm walking.

I'll have my Kindle or other stuff and I will simply do laps around the house or I'll do laps in the neighborhood with my Bible. And my legs are busy and it keeps my mind clear. And some people are probably trying to diagnose me right now, but it's been very helpful for me.

And so I think that learning to figure out how to study the Bible well, to learn to love the Bible, to put away the things that keep us from the Bible and to know ourselves is a great place to start. And as we talk about Bible study, I think that that will create more of an appetite because, I mean, how do we know what works best if we don't know what to try, right?

So the next question I want to answer or ask then is this. As a pastor in a church, a refrain that I often hear, and maybe some of you guys have thought the very same thing, is some will say, okay, I know how to read my Bible.

I always hear about studying my Bible, but how does one study their Bible? Do I open the Bible and do I just look at the same word 20 times and write down what comes to mind? What does that look like?

And I'll put it to you guys. Ryan, I'll start with you this time, brother. You're not off the hook. And I'll ask you, what counsel would you give that member of your church who, maybe they've been a Christian for six months, and they're saying, I hear about studying the Bible.

What should I do? Where do I start?

So if I recall the conversation that we had previously, I think the answer that I gave you, I still hold to it. This is the importance of discipleship and being in a good local church. I wasn't privileged to have that when I became a Christian.

I was saved in a large charismatic church. And so I don't want to say the first two years of my life were completely wasted, but I had no idea what I was doing. And then by God's good grace, someone pointed me to a Bible teacher named John MacArthur, and he discipled me, because I didn't have anyone else to.

And so if there were to be someone, a newer believer, someone who's like, yeah, I'm really getting into this. Again, I would say that the local church is the greenhouse by which God seeks to grow his plants.

And it starts, I would say, from the exemplary, how the pastor himself does it on the Lord's day and in all the other meetings. But talk to your pastor, and maybe he, great pastor, can also be an overseer, and he knows the flock.

The best way to pray, the best way to learn to evangelize, the best way to learn the Bible is actually to be around others. And think about that in the early church. They all didn't have a Bible, but they would get together and they would read it together, they would pray together, they would live it out together, sort of like you see in Acts 2 .42, right?

There's this constant one-anothering, holding tenaciously, devotedly, it's an interesting Greek word, you know, to the apostles' teaching. But it wasn't, okay, I'm going to do my devotional by myself at six in the morning, which is good.

But pray and seek out a Titus 2 kind of mentor relationship, like we heard about this morning.

Amen. So I'll ask a follow-up question on that. When you're preparing your sermons and you're preaching, are you seeking to model to some degree what good Bible study looks like?

Yes. Yes. I don't know if I'm carrying it out, but I'm seeking to. You're seeking to. And that's why, you know, I'll be sneaky here, but expositional preaching, I think, is the safest and it's the best model because you're actually teaching the people that they don't need to know the Bible inside and out, right?

Like, I don't know 13 ,000 verses that come to mind when I hear one word, but if the pastor's just working line by line through the Word of God, not skipping over, that's actually modeling how we should be reading and applying the Bible to our own lives, not just on Sunday.

And so, you know, expositional preaching is something you should look for if you're looking for a church or you're trying to point someone to a good local church. Make sure one of the priorities you have is, are they preaching expositionally as their main diet?

Yeah.

And to define terms by expositional preaching, you're meaning they're going through the text. I mean, there are different definitions, but you're going through the text and you're seeking to discern the meaning and the point that the text is making.

So you're looking at the words. It's not, okay, we're going to look at John 1 .1. I read the text and then I go into a million different anecdotes or I use it as a launching pad to go somewhere else. If we're in John 1 .1, it's, in the beginning was the Word.

Well, what's the beginning? What is Word? The Word was with God. The Word was God and breaking that down. I agree. And I think for those who are members of a church where you have expository preaching, your pastors, the elders, the men who are preaching are seeking to model that for you.

I think that's one of the best ways to learn is just by looking at this guy. And I think of one brother who's not in this session, but he came to me one day and he said, I would just love to go ride shotgun with you and see what it looks like to prepare your sermons.

And I'm sure if you asked your elders in your church, can I just watch you over your shoulder for a little bit, you might find it remarkably helpful. And I think that they would find it interesting just to have company.

We know the study can be a lonely place. And so just to have someone to watch your pastor as he's working, and not all of it will be applicable, but some of it will. I've given you lots of time to frame your answer, Joel.

Can I quickly sneak one thing in? So we heard from Titus 2, and it's actually one of my favorite verses where Titus is just sort of direct how the older men are to be honored and to sort of work into the lives of others and the older women towards the younger women.

And then in 2 .7, the ESV says, show yourself to be a model of good works, but it's actually not a good translation. It's a participle. It means showing yourself. So how does Titus disciple the young men?

By showing them. And so what I'm doing is I just had a synapse two minutes after the answer. So we want people to show us what does it look like? How do they model for us disciplined Bible study and reading?

I wish it would drop from heaven, but this is, again, that's why we need to disciple one another in the local church. So sorry to jump in for that, Joel, but it came to mind.

Taking notes on things you guys say. I mean, I love the notion, the emphasis in there. I've long contended that what happens when any of us open up our Bibles and we're like, what do I do now? Basically, it's the amalgam or the average, the median of all of the preaching that we've heard or the theology we've consumed.

You just end up by not just instinctively doing what you hear from the pulpit. So it does put on a really strong onus mandate. You better be listening to good preaching because that's probably what you're going to turn around and do when you open your Bible.

Okay. The question, what do we actually do to grow in our Bible reading? I remember as a young teen asking, I wanted to study the Bible. I would read a passage, read down through the paragraph, and I'd be like, now what?

What do I do after this? I wanted to go deeper. So it's tempting now because you can do all this double-click on the words and it pops up strong numbers and stuff like that. It's tempting. That gives you something to do.

And I'm not exactly opposed to it, though I find it's probably more misleading than it is helpful. I think generally the results get weird if we just start doing stuff. I'll just tell you what turned the corner for me was starting to get really active with annotating, writing, marking.

So I mean, I do it electronically. I've got like a PDF of every book of the Bible and I mark it. And it's been, I don't know, it's built up for more than a decade. So you can go to passages and you'd be like, okay, apparently he listened to a sermon on that passage and it was very expositional because there's a ton of notes on it.

Okay. Apparently he did a paper on that. There's a ton of notes in there. There's sections that are more studied, other sections that are less. Well, it is, I mean, it's a delight to get up in the morning, go to a section that is less studied.

And what I'm doing is I'm underlining in blue all of the places. I think today it was holiness. Went down through a passage and holiness was like, oh yeah. Okay. Just lit up. So bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.

We underlined it in blue. And then you can go through and see, okay, here's sovereignty of God. You go through and underline that in another color. Okay, here's the Holy Spirit. You're under, you're just seeing these themes and you mark them.

So you could do that electronically. You can do that in paper, but doing something, writing. And then a second stage would be going through and summarizing the passage. Like you can look at, okay, this section is about, this section is about, this section is about.

And then every day I try to give myself a one to two sentence. Here's what I practically ought to take away. And I have my kids doing that too. They each have a little note card. Each kid has a different color and they pick the pink card and they write on there.

They're less than for the day. And then every couple of weeks I'll pull up their cards and we'll just talk through it. And I can see what's going on in their life right now. Like, oh, you learned this.

What about this? What are your thoughts there? Why did you think that? But for me, it's giving me something bite size and tangible that I'll now carry through my day. I think the theme running through all three of those is Bible reading that's active.

So what we're kind of doing when we go like, well, I didn't get anything today is like I dragged my eyeballs across it. But as soon as I have a pen in my hand, as soon as I'm needing to summarize, as soon as I'm marking, then suddenly my brain turns on.

It's actually just an education concept, but I'm engaging. And that turned the corner. And after that, I'm no longer sitting there going like, no, what do I do now? My problem today is, oh, I got to stop because we're having too much fun.

Okay. That was the thing that shifted.

That for me. Yeah. If I can add to that, I put this pen in my pocket this morning just to remember good counsel that I received a number of years ago that I've sought to take is by a good Bible. So I bought a good Bible with a good binding that'll last a little while.

It's a binding, it's a Bible with wide margins. And then I have a black Pigma Micron 01 pen. And the counsel I was given was buy a good Bible, get a good archival quality pen, and turn that Bible into your own study Bible.

And so whether you have a study Bible of your own, you're doing, you're listening to sermons, whatever that might be, get it to the point. And this is a relatively new Bible for me. Some of my folks from our church saw my previous Bible.

They said, how do you even read that? There's annotations between the lines even, but you cannot mind the depths of God's word to its terminus. You're just going to keep going and going and going. And so buy a good Bible, mark it up, fill it up, shelf it, buy another Bible, start over again.

Do you have.

Something to add, brother? No, I just want to say that if you probably looked at our Bible study methods, we're all doing the same thing. We're active. Like this isn't a progressive Bible, right? But it's all colored up.

And this is probably the 10th one I've gone through. And I I'm kind of silly, but I want all of my girls, I have five girls, and I want them, you know, sort of heirlooms, just like this is daddy's treasure, you know, that if I die, and they'll say like, he wasn't perfect, but man, he obviously loved the word of God.

He studied to show himself, you know, to be an approved workman who is not ashamed. And so if you were to look at probably the first one that I marked up, an old King James Bible, you're like, what in the world is this guy marking up?

I don't know, but I was sure marking it up. And then as you keep working through them, or, you know, if you have electronic, I'm sure you can change things. But it's not like a secret. It's just spend time in the word.

Like just be in the word and ask God to show you wonderful things from his law, you know, and I'll sneak one thing in is learn to meditate on it. Turn those things over. Psalm 11, blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers, but his what?

His delight. His delight is in the law, not just on. His delight is in the law of Yahweh. And in his law, he meditates, right? He chews it. He mulls it over. He goes with them, right? And so even as brother says, he's like, oh, you know, I wish I could be in here all day.

I got to go to work. And it's true. But then as you're driving to work in between, you can turn that Bible reading into prayers. It's on the forefront of your mind and you begin to bear fruit. And so I would also encourage not just Bible reading, but the Puritans were really good at this.

There's different ways of reading the Bible. And I try to employ this. I'm not perfect, but, you know, there's sort of three speeds. You know, sometimes you're just reading to get the big picture. And so you're not stopping at every word, but you're just trying to get what's the context.

And then sometimes you just slow down and you can read maybe, you know, a section or a chapter. And then sometimes you just want to really focus and zero in on one verse. And which of the three are best?

All three of them, but understand, you know, some of you probably have never read the Bible in one year. Make that a goal. It's actually doable. And I'm not trying to be arrogant or self-righteous. I hope I didn't come across that way.

You know, but if we're in the Bible reading a chapter a day, reading two chapters, you know, I listened to Kindle and you can put it to two times speed, four times speed, and you can get a lot in. And so just, so this is Proverbs 4, 7.

The beginning of wisdom is this. Anyone know the next line? Who said that? Get wisdom and in all thy getting, get insight. It's not really complicated. It can be, but the beginning of wisdom is this. Get it.

Yeah. So anyway, sorry. That was a bit long.

No, that's good. What I'll do, we could say so much more. I want to say so much more, but we'll talk about this. I think it'll flesh it out a bit more still. So that's, you're reading your Bible. You've got your iPad and your Apple Pencil, your Pigma Micron.

You're listening to your preacher, the pastors in your church. What counsel would you give for the one who says, okay, I'm doing all of that already. I want to go to the next level. What does that look like?

Joel's on the hot seat.

Reading the Bible More Broadly and More Deeply

Okay, noted. You know, so I like what Ryan was just saying, like there's the comprehensive and there's also the deep. You want to do both. So I'll give some suggestions for each. So on the comprehensive, doing it in a year is great.

It's going to sound really negative and a little shocking. I think maybe one of the reasons we struggle with the through the year, read the Bible in a year plans is because we're going slowly. And I think it's actually harder to read slowly through the Bible than it is to read more quickly.

For me, doing three chapters a day, that feels painful. I have two modes that I primarily function in, and one is go a bunch, like, I don't know, 10-ish chapters in a day or go narrow as in one Psalm.

And I think those are the two modes I go in. And I think they both work pretty well. At least they work well for me. I think reading three chapters is hard, like actually really hard because particularly, and this is what everybody does with Bible reading plans, right?

You bog down in Leviticus numbers. That's the graveyard of Bible reading plans. And it's because at three chapters a day, you're kind of watching paint dry. So a proposal rather than the year plan, which that could be great as a start, but what if you shortened it down and went for a three-month plan or a one-month plan?

Okay, some numbers. Three-month plan is probably about 30 minutes a day. It's actually not too bad, okay? That three-month plan down to the one-month plan, at the one-month plan, you are getting into an hour, hour and 15 or something like that.

Now, audio Bible can cut a lot of that. So you could even do it on a commute or something like that. But you know what? Reading Leviticus, how about that? Read Leviticus in one shot, as in time it so it hits like on a weekend, on a Saturday, and do Leviticus in a day, the cumulative effect of the entire book hitting you as one shot is really powerful.

And the book is beautiful at that point, but it's a literary hole. It just works better that way, right? Psalms, Proverbs slow up a little bit. Epistles slow up a little bit, but I actually think Leviticus numbers, first and second Chronicles, Jeremiah, Ezekiel go a lot better if you hit them in a shot or maybe a couple of days and go fast.

I like to buy a word Bible. You can buy them for like five bucks and then just mark the living daylights out of them and then shelve them. I like to read when I'm doing a read through, I buy that a word Bible and I might market just for that read through.

And I listen with audio on like one and a half speed and it keeps me moving. All right. So anyway, read comprehensively, read big. I know a handful of people that have read the Bible in a week. It's doable.

You have to clear the whole week. That's your full-time job somewhere between now and when they bury you. That's a pretty good bucket list experience. I suspect it'll change your life. You have to do it about eight hours a day, plan your way.

I can give you some suggestions. I got a couple of articles. If you search Joel Arnold and search for Bible reading in a week, it'll come up. Some suggestions for how to do it. It's an experience, life-changing.

Okay. And then on the, I got to go faster into the like in-depth reading. Don't be afraid of using good sources. So start with ESV study Bible or the NIV biblical theology study Bible. Those two are excellent.

When I'm in Ezekiel, I'm like, what is this talking about? I am pulling up one of those two sources because they're concise, they're easy, they're consistently accurate. They just do, they're just good.

And then if I want to go deeper, I'm going into a lighter commentary set. Tyndale commentary is good. Exposers Bible commentary is good. And we can multiply from there, but you don't have to go straight to the super technical commentaries, get the mid range, get the right tool for the right job.

Don't overwhelm yourself. And between some of those, you are going to go deeper and broader.

Anything to add brother? No. One thing I will say that was tremendously helpful for me was if anyone's heard the name James Gray, he wrote a book, How to Master Your Bible. It's an old book. It's in the public domain.

You can find it in I'm sure PDF and a thousand websites. I don't know enough about the author to commend everything he's written, but that book was very helpful. And one of the things that he says is that you should identify a book and read it, read that book in its entirety every day for a month and then move on.

I know John MacArthur has commanded something very similar. And so I read that book. He said something that was interesting. I grew up on an acreage. I'm not, I wasn't a farmer. My in-laws are farmers and I understand the acquaintance that they have with their farm.

They have 160 acres, which is a very small farm, just a quarter horse farm. But they can tell you, my father-in-law can tell you where the fences are strongest, where the fences are weakest, where there's a big rock.

You know, you get to know, and having been out there snowmobiling and stuff, you know, I need to be careful and I'm riding my snowmobile on this part of this hill because I know that there's some old barbed wire somewhere deep underneath there.

And I've been told to watch out. So I need to look out in that section. They've mastered their whole domain, right? And they're farmers I know who have, you know, thousands of acres who could probably tell you the same.

And how is it? It's because they've been in their tractor, on their quad, whatever it is, their four-wheeler, if you're in the States, and they have just done laps around that thing. And so I started with Ephesians and it was remarkable.

I didn't do it for a month. I did it for 20 days. I started with Ephesians and then worked through Mark and other books. And by the end of the 20th day, I knew Ephesians backward and forward. I could tell you every, and to this day, I know Ephesians more or less backward or forwards because of that, what I did eight years ago, reading Ephesians.

So, okay, I'm gonna put the question to you, Ryan, and then we're gonna shift gears and go to theology. Advanced Bible study. Okay, so you're reading scripture. You have some commentaries. I should commend that they have them at the table.

The ESV Study Bible is an excellent, like a one-stop shop book. It's got a systematic theology in the back of the Study Bible. I don't know many that have that. So that's very good. But you have your Study Bibles, you're reading the text, you're getting in there.

What does advanced Bible study look like? For me, it's just reading the Bible over.

And over and over and over and over again. I know that's a cop-out. So for me, advanced just means just rereading it. Now, of course, I'll get into commentaries, et cetera. And then, you know, in seminary, I was obviously able to learn Greek and Hebrew, which I would commend to everyone.

In John Piper's book, Brothers Were Not Professionals, he has a chapter called Brothers. Bitzer was a banker. And some people think, oh, Greek, that's just for the guys who go to seminary for three years.

It's, you know, for the guys who teach at Bible colleges. And so John Piper talks about, you know, this banker, and he was able to teach himself Greek. And Luther was actually less gentle than I am. Luther's like, everyone should know Greek.

So for me, advanced is, yeah, you know, going from the English to the Greek. Now, not everyone can, but by God's grace, that's what I would... So I just slow it down. So my advances, I'll just keep reading it and reading it and reading it, and then I'll read it some more.

I know that's not very satisfying as an answer, but just immersing yourself in the text. You know, there's a gentleman who came to our church, and he says, you know, I love that you're Credo Baptist. And he says, you know, I'm so glad you guys are immersing, you know, believers.

He says, oh, that we'd be Logo Baptists, that we'd be immersing ourselves in the Word, you know. And so advanced, do I need to go, you know, get languages, et cetera? Those are great, but just, you know, keep immersing yourself in the Word of God.

And as Brother Jewel said, those things start coming out, right? It won't be until probably the fifth, tenth, fifteenth reading of Ephesians where you'll start to see, hey, there's a lot of things happening here that I never saw in my first or second reading.

It's not because you're getting smarter or more advanced, it's just because those things are starting to come to the fore because you're familiar, right, like your in-laws are doing. And so what is advanced?

Just doing the same thing, just reading and reading and reading and meditating and memorizing and praying, and then repeat. So I know that's a cop-out, but that's what I do.

No, that's great, and I think you're getting us in the right direction. And I'm sure Jewel can complement that more.

I mean, sometimes I think what we're assuming advanced Bible study looks like is somebody who can read, you know, like three sentences and then just a world of theology comes out of it, and it's all like really obscure and abstract, like, that's crazy, that guy's so smart, he preached for like four hours on, you know, three words or something.

We don't get any extra points for sounding profound. We don't get extra points for being obscure. And I think generally the attempt to try to look at a proposition, a sentence in, you know, in a New Testament passage, I'll just pick one randomly, a sentence in there and like come up with something that sounds crazy, that's probably in the weeds.

The straightforward reading is the best way to go. I would say this as a vision for profound or advanced Bible reading. I had a teacher in seminary who consistently would take us to a passage that we all felt like we knew, and he'd be like, but did you notice that it doesn't say, it says rather, or did you notice this word right here, and that therefore, and what is the like link between those, and did you notice that, and it was generally right on the surface of the English text.

It was generally kind of like, oh my goodness, I'm an idiot. It was there the whole time. I mean, that was the feeling. I think what made him an advanced Bible student was that he was observant. So it's the person who walks into the forest and I'm like, trees, and he's like, oh yeah, that right there, that's a, and he identifies it, and you know, it's surprising to me that that's already budding because this is a little early this year, and he's like, he's just, he's advanced because he sees, he can see, I can see everything he can see.

It's right there, but he's observant and I'm not. All right, so I think advanced Bible study is careful observation skills, and a second thing I would say, before we feel like we need to write, you know, 45 pages on two sentences, have we mastered the whole thing yet?

In other words, sometimes it's like that guy's advanced because he can drill, drill, drill, drill, drill, drill on this one sentence in Ephesians. Meanwhile, we're ignoring like the entire book of Ezekiel, like the whole thing.

It's massive, like most of the New Testament epistles would fit in Ezekiel, and I'm subject to this. I mean, this last semester, we had a major prophets course. The semester before that, we had a minor prophets course.

That was the first time I felt like I worked carefully sentence by, you know, paragraph by paragraph, I should say, through major and minor prophets. Prior to that, it's like, Jeremiah, it's so huge. I just, it's too big.

I couldn't get my head around it. I still don't have my head around it at all. Anyway, I just say that advanced Bible study is probably going back and looking into those portions of scripture that get shelved and ignored.

The minor prophets are glorious. Ezekiel, turns out, is really awesome. And so how about let's do some of that. Let's be.

Comprehensive. That's great. And I'll give a tip or a tool that you can use to develop that. It's something that we do with our students when we go through hermeneutics. That's the study or the art of biblical, art and science of biblical interpretation.