How to Profit from Bible Reading
Overview
God gave us one book, and he wrote it for us to study, to analyze, and to live in accordance with it. The Bible is a large book made of 66 smaller books, written by about 39 authors over a period of 1,500 years. To read and study such a volume would seem impossible, but God has given us a lifetime. Irving Jensen, well-known author and Bible teacher, knows the importance of a lifetime of Bible reading. In How to Profit from Bible Reading, he shares how to read a passage or book of the Bible and come away with a greater knowledge of what the writer intended.
Top Highlights
“It has been aptly said, ‘A book is a book only when it is in the hands of a reader; the rest of the time it is an artifact.’” (Pages ix–x)
“Reading God’s Word can make you increase and grow and mature in your Christian life, making you more and more like your Master.” (Page xii)
“make a thorough examination of all the parts of a unit of Scripture, as a basis for interpreting and applying it” (Page 79)
“‘God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age.” (Page 12)
“analysis as the separation of the whole into constituent parts for individual study.” (Page 77)