Over the last few weeks we’ve thought through some of the Big Questions to ask ourselves when we read the Bible in order to help us leave the Scriptures with as good of an interpretation and application as possible, one that is not just faithful to the text, but helps us to be more faithful … Continue reading Big Questions: Concluding Thoughts
For the past week this exploration of the Big Questions that can make our Scripture reading more meaningful has been focusing on ensuring we leave our reading changed. So far we’ve framed that goal in terms of personal growth and development, and expanding in awareness, empathy, and love. Today we’ll tie these two themes together … Continue reading Big Questions: What Is the Impact of My Interpretation on Others?
As we continue asking the Big Questions that can help us better understand, interpret, and apply the Scriptures, today we find ourselves in the midst of the last step: Expand. After doing the introductory work of the Experience and Encounter steps and the heavy lifting of the Explore and Challenge steps, we evaluate our emerging … Continue reading Big Questions: How Does My Interpretation Expand Love?
This series on “Reading the Bible Better” has been all about the Big Questions that can help us better understand, interpret, and apply the Scriptures in our day-to-day lives. They are also the questions at the root of the various steps of the Integral Hermeneutic method I developed a few years ago: 1. We experience … Continue reading Big Questions: How Does My Interpretation Encourage Growth?
Last time, we looked at the Bible through a critical lens, asking whose text it is and whose it isn’t. But postmodernism isn’t just about asking hard questions of existing systems and structures (including sacred ones), but also about asking those same hard questions of ourselves. We don’t just look for biases in the text … Continue reading Big Questions: How Is My Context Impacting my Reading?
Matthew Root 