Six Steps to Reading Your Bible - Starter Pack
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'How sweet are your words to my taste,' says the psalmist about the law of God, 'sweeter than honey to my mouth.' Most Christians would like to say Amen, but somehow it doesn't always feel this way.
Reading the Bible often feels like our attempts to have regular exercise - a healthy chore we know we should fit in, but which is hard to manage among everything else, and ends up slipping off the agenda.
Whatever your current Bible reading habits (or lack of them), and whatever your level of knowledge and confidence, Six Steps To Reading Your Bible will help you make progress in getting into your Bible. The course is especially designed for use in small groups, and utilises a mix of video instruction, Bible study, discussion, practical exercises, prayer and assignments.
Six Steps to Reading Your Bible is an ideal course for three groups of people:
1. People who are new to the Christian faith. It will give them a very valuable introduction to the place of the Bible in the Christian life, and a set of basic tools for getting started in reading it.
2. Those who have been Christians a while, but who have never had much training in simple but important Bible study principles.
3. Experienced Bible readers, who will find Six Steps to Reading Your Bible a valuable ‘refresher’ course, and will gain a healthy new vigour in their personal Bible reading.
Over the six sessions of the course, you will:
- Become familiar with the basic shape and nature of the Bible
- Be motivated to read the Bible for yourself
- Learn how to apply basic reading skills to the Bible
- Learn how to apply a Bible passage to your life
- Understand how the whole message of the Bible hangs together and centers on Jesus
- Benefit from the encouragement and experience of others, as you work together in learning to read the Bible
- this DVD (one per group) which contains talks, role plays and interviews
- a workbook for each person, which also contains notes for leaders
Customer Reviews
This dvd-based course provides a useful resource for training individuals and small groups on how to listen carefully to God’s voice in the Scriptures. Importantly, for group use, it also requires discerning and godly leaders who will: (i) pray for people; (ii) be able to reinforce the basics, answer questions, overcome objections; and (iii) model good bible handling. Leaders may well consider adapting the study booklet due to a number of perceived weaknesses.
The dvd sessions are quite good on basic bible handling skills but suffer from a few unfortunate distractions and shortcomings. First, there is a lot going on in the background in many scenes, which is both unnecessary and distracting. Secondly, a few of the light-hearted, real-life scenarios create more questions for new believers than they effectively resolve. Lastly, some viewers may be dismayed at the unedifying (singular) use of the word “damn”. The adoption of multi-media for bible skills training is to be welcomed, but only with caution. The format lends itself to entertainment over education and this series suffers slightly from a lack of discipline on this front.
Perhaps the greatest weakness with the booklet is that the examples chosen for group work and independent study are very ambitious. Without effective supervision, matched by a flexible use of materials, the exercises could lead to a negative first impression where people are left thinking, “I could never do that!”
Notwithstanding these objections, there is much that is good and I would recommend its careful use.
Six Steps to Reading Your Bible DVD, by Tony Payne & Simon Roberts
Six Steps to Reading Your Bible Workbook, by Tony Payne & Simon Roberts
Six Steps to Encouragement - Starter Pack, by Gordon Cheng
Six Steps to talking about Jesus - Starter Pack
