Preparing and Leading
Bible Study - First Principles
13 Mar 2008 - 08:29 — by IFES Europe
- This book is God’s book. It is first and foremost His revelation of Himself to His world. Therefore when we read the Bible, although we want to see how it speaks to us about our lives, we have to first ask how it speaks to us about who God is!
How to Read!
14 Apr 2008 - 15:03 — by IFES Europe
Reading isn’t an automatic process – the further your text is away from you, the harder it will be to understand what the author wanted to do with! So expect reading to be work!
Understanding texts
Understanding a text is not automatic! We have to search for it.
Long time, many copies, little truth?
14 Apr 2008 - 13:08 — by IFES EuropeThe New Testament: A case of Chinese whisper?
There is a deep rooted prejudice against the New Testament and actually the whole of the Bible which goes like this:
“What you read in the Bible can’t be true, because there have been so many generations between the events and the accounts. When they passed their stories on, they got changed, distorted, embellished.”
How to read Old Testament Law
3 Apr 2008 - 12:21 — by IFES EuropeWhat is “The Law”?
Sometimes all of the 5 books of Moses or even all of the Old Testament are called “the Law”. But most often this expression refers to everything between Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 33, and especially to the approximatly 600 commandments in these 4 books.