Men of the Word Sermon Podcast · Grace Community Church

The Practice of Bible Study, Part 4

·1 hr 4 min·4 clips

The Bible is very easy to understand, but we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers.

This is the final installment of a multi-part series on the doctrine of Scripture, focusing on the fourth stage of Bible study: application. The teacher explains that application means drawing a line between the immutable meaning of the text and the variable circumstances of the reader's life, covering three spheres of application (intellect, will, and affections) and four reasons Christians neglect it.

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A sober lesson on why Bible study is not finished when interpretation ends.

The sermon closes a long study of Scripture by pressing on the part readers most often leave unfinished: application. It moves from Scripture's witness to the text, through the personal habits needed to handle it well, and into the gap between knowing and doing.

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