After we’ve gotten our Bibles, study tools, and marking pens and pencils, and then worked through the text and interpreted God’s Word, we must then perform the most important task of Bible study: applying God’s Word to our lives.
Learn MoreChoosing a Bible translation is one of the most important decisions you can make in your Bible reading and study. The right translation can help you to grow deeper, memorize, and stay excited about the Word of God. The wrong translation can keep you confused, and even worse, bored over God’s Word.
Learn MoreAnother valuable active-reading tool is marking your Bible with symbols. Marking with symbols allows you to interact with the text. Like highlighting, symbols require you to look closely at a text in order to identify the main points. Symbols can work much like a color-code in that they can allow you to mark according to topic, or bring out the main points according to key-words.
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The Pursuit of Holiness by Jerry Bridges is a fine work that builds Biblical principles and guidelines that we need in order to obey God’s command to live a holy life. Bridges doesn’t just make claims that we should live holy and leave it at that. Instead, he shows from Scripture the need of living a holy life and how to attain it. This book truly demonstrates the pursuit of holiness.
Another valuable form of active reading is taking notes. At first it might sound strange that writing be can part of reading, but writing lets us interact with the text. Interacting with the text helps you pull out the main points, which helps you to get a deeper understanding of the text. It also helps in memorizing Scripture.
Learn MoreOne of the most valuable active reading methods is highlighting. Highlighting is a good way to identify the main points of a text. Some of the most useful things to highlight include words, phrases, and sentences. This helps to understand the thought of the writer. It also helps in determining meaning, and is a great help in memorization. For me, highlighting is one of the best memorization tools.
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