{"id":648,"date":"2014-10-29T21:45:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T21:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/?p=648"},"modified":"2014-10-31T16:28:54","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T16:28:54","slug":"hands-on-bible-study-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lloydstock.com\/blog\/?p=648","title":{"rendered":"Hands-on Bible Study #2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Layering on-top of what we explored last week, this week we look at another technique which we can use to help get to grips with God’s Word.<\/p>\n

Our main focus with these studies is to study a book as a whole. Usually this begins by reading the whole book through once\u00a0in a single sitting. You should then keep doing this regularly. With a book like James, you’re really only talking 10-15 minutes so you could set aside 15 minutes each day whilst you’re studying James to read it through, again, in one sitting.<\/p>\n

Being as you don’t want to get distracted, it would make sense to read from your\u00a0physical bible. Digital bibles have their place but\u00a0lack the ‘focus’ that you get with a physical book. Apart from the temptation to start clicking away, on a phone or tablet for instance, you may be interrupted by message and notification tones to mention just a few of the potential distractions. The other benefit of reading from your actual bible is that you’ll start to develop a sense of ‘where things are’ on the page itself. This is great for memory recall – imagine you’re studying another book sometime else and a verse in James comes to mind. Because text in a physical bible is laid out in physical space you’ll be able to recall whereabouts on the page that verse is and therefore will find it more easily. That’s never going to happen when using a digital bible because\u00a0the text is just linear.<\/p>\n

So, reading the book through in one sitting you can start to use the additional technique we explored this evening, highlighting and annotating as you go:<\/p>\n