Breaking Down the Process

Breaking Down the Process

Pray:

1. Humble- yourself acknowledge your need for the Spirit to understand and live out the Truth
2. Ask-God to remove obstacles that keep you from hearing and responding to the Truth
3. Thank-God for speaking to you through His Word and for sending the Spirit to guide you into living out the Truth.

Read:

1. Familiarize-read the whole passage to grasp the big picture
2. Observe- groupings of passages that form a story or express an idea
3. Synthesize-read the whole passage to see how stories/ideas relate to each other and help express the big picture.

Summarize:

1. Organize passages into major events/points
2. List subpoints/ story arcs under major headings

Analyze:

1. What does it say?
2. What does it mean to the original audience?
3. How is this relevant to people today?

Contextualize:

1. What you learned about God
2. What you learned about us/yourself
3. What you learned about how God interacts with us

Actualize:

1. Specific-actions that help you live out what you’ve learned
2. Measurable- observable actions that display/confirm what you believe
3. Actionable- something you can do now and work on this week