Class 8 - Gaps: Literature
Inductive Bible Study: Part 1 • Sermon • Submitted • Presented
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Homework
Homework
Two new things you learned and be ready to share them.
Also, note 1 thing that was the most important thing you learned
-Also, note 1 thing that was the most important thing you learned
A question you have
-A question you have
Be ready to share a little about the structure and theme of your biblical book from the overview videos.
How will this impact your live?
How to Read the Bible Series
How to Read the Bible Series
Overview
Overview
Each genera has different techniques and rules for interpretation
What is the Bible
What is the Bible
Includes how non-cannonical literature came into existence, but doesn’t explain why it was rejected
The Story of the Bible
The Story of the Bible
Many people fail to see the continuity
The serpent in genesis 3 and the temptation of Jesus in the beginning of the Gospels (new Adam, 1 Corinthians 15:45
And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
but he was defeated, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven.
Imagine the Bible as a string of pearls or a diamond
Writing Styles (and why they’re important to understand)
Writing Styles (and why they’re important to understand)
Narrative: Difference between Bible characters showing you how to live (you don’t just begin to do everything they do) versus seeing yourself in them (“I do that too, but I never considered how wrong that was.”)
Descriptive versus Prescriptive (normative)
Poetry: pushes us of the path into need territory
Prose Discorse: how we should logically understand
How the Bible is unique as literature
How the Bible is unique as literature
Ambiguities often are not what the authors are emphasizing, some times they are. How do you know?
Risk of creating yours own story
Invitation to follow what is stated and make connections/and interpret in light of the other passages
Plot in Biblical Narrative
Plot in Biblical Narrative
You can make the same story have a different message if you ignore where it occurs in the plot
Gideon’s fleece is not about discerning Gods will (how to “set out your own fleece”…a if this is noble), but rather how God is committed to deliver his people through flawed deliverers (which pleads for a perfect deliverer)
Character in Biblical Narrative
Character in Biblical Narrative
The Bible is not a children’s book. It is a mixed bag of good and evil (to show us realistic Jews of ourselves)
Imitate the end of themselves and then turn in radical faith!
God is a biblical character
Setting in Biblical Narrative
Setting in Biblical Narrative
Notice the Abraham example in Egypt
They can build up expectations and then mess with you (Jesus to Egypt where the king of the Jews, who wasn’t a Jew at all had become the new Egypt…killing babies…Jerusalem became Egypt.
The 40 days and who is the twist (Jesus)
Design Patterns in Biblical Narrative
Design Patterns in Biblical Narrative
Patterns (Gospel Project) observed through key words and images (observation)
Maybe someone will come and break the pattern
Consider 1 Peter 3:18-22
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God,
being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
Animated Overview Series
Animated Overview Series
Psalms
Psalms
1 Samuel-1 Kings; Wisdom Literature
1 Samuel-1 Kings; Wisdom Literature
Gods not Israel’s trophy (in all honesty, Israel is God’s trophy)
You don’t just need a deliverer, you need a king
Genesis
Genesis
Homework
Homework
Read the beginning of Chapter 2 in Kostenberger
“A Step by Step Approach” (20-22)
“#1 The Literal Principle” (22-24)
“#2 The Contextual Principle” (24-28)
Read through the chapters of the Bible your curriculum will cover (it is in the table of contents)
Discus the author, audience, and context of your book and be prepared to share these (Explore the Bible and The Gospel Project)
Familiarize yourself with the discipleship goals and be prepared to share them with the class (Bible Studies for Life)
Determine who will be the first teacher for week 1. Work together to share the main point of your first lesson.
