{"id":629,"date":"2014-10-22T15:17:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T14:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/?p=629"},"modified":"2014-10-31T16:29:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T16:29:24","slug":"hands-on-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/?p=629","title":{"rendered":"Hands-on Bible Study #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 22nd 2014 we began a hands-on bible study on the book of James. The goal was\u00a0to refresh our minds of some of the techniques we can use to get to grips with God&#8217;s Word.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve began by\u00a0using simple method that\u00a0you can re-use whenever you are trying to get an overall grasp of a book:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, to get our minds into gear we look for titles of The Lord Jesus and other references to deity. The choice of designation that the New Testament writers use when speaking of the Lord Jesus is always significant and often provides us with a key to unlocking some elements of the writers purpose.<\/li>\n<li>Second, we identify key words and key ideas. This will provide further clues as to the theme, purpose and meaning of the text.<\/li>\n<li>Third, we start developing the setting, Who is writing, Who is he writing to, When is he writing and Why is he writing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BibleStudy_HandsonWorkbook1.docx\">this template <\/a>to capture these elements in your own bible study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 22nd 2014 we began a hands-on bible study on the book of James. The goal was\u00a0to refresh our minds of some of the techniques we can use to get to grips with God&#8217;s Word. We&#8217;ve began by\u00a0using simple method that\u00a0you can re-use whenever you are trying to get an overall grasp of a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible-class"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}