INDUCTIVE BIBLE STUDY HELPS

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• What is an inductive Bible study?

  • It is an approach to studying the
  • What it is not…
    • It is not.. A teacher teaching people what the Bible says
    • It is not… A topical study using several different passages in the BIble
    • It is not… Finding answers from books and commentaries and internet searches
    • It is not… Using a biblical passage to prove a doctrine held by your church
    • It is not… A time where everyone immediately applies it to their lives before they study what it originally meant
    • It is not… A time where each person says, “I think this passage means this to me” rather than asking what it meant to the original writer and readers
  • What it is…
    • An inductive Bible study is…  A prayerful gathering of several who seek to know what God’s word says
    • An inductive Bible study is… A study of ONE PASSAGE (perhaps a chapter,perhaps a paragraph) only
    • An inductive Bible study is… A study where the different people Try to see what a passage originally meant when the author first wrote it to his original audience
    • An inductive Bible study is… A study where the participants do the thinking rather than letting the Bible study leader do all the thinking
    • An inductive Bible study is… A study which honors the original writer and readers by trying to understand what he meant
• Who can lead an inductive Bible study?
  • Anyone who loves Jesus and is willing to spend an hour or so in preparation time for each inductive Bible session
    • But some will say, I don’t have a Bible education!
      • That’s okay!  You are not TEACHING them; you are helping them to ask the right questions!  The passage will teach them!
    • But some will say, I don’t know how to teach!
      • We have the same answer for that too!  You don’t teach inductive Bible studies; you help people to think for themselves by asking the right questions and then thinking about what the writer was trying to say.