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We are living in a time of constant change.\u00a0 All around us our cultures and sub-cultures are fluxing and morphing before our eyes.\u00a0 Our world is desperate for people who are able to represent and stand for the deeper realities that do not change.\u00a0 God is still the same God, His plans are still the same plans and He is still what this world needs.\u00a0 So the world needs us.\u00a0 It needs us if we know Him.\u00a0 It needs us if we are able to represent Him.<\/p>\n

Somehow, in the increasingly hectic whirlwind of contemporary society, many of us have lost touch with what we need most at this time.\u00a0 If we are to represent God.\u00a0 If we are to truly know God, then we need to be people with a passion for knowing Him.\u00a0 We need to be people with a passion for His self-revelation \u2013 the Bible.\u00a0 In a previous century, in a different time, John Wesley cried, \u201cOh, give me that book!\u00a0 At any price give me the book of God.\u00a0 Let me be a man of one book!\u201d\u00a0 He changed his world.<\/p>\n

Many today react against that kind of fervent passion.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s imbalanced!\u00a0 We need a more balanced approach.\u201d\u00a0 So in this article I\u2019d like to share my balanced approach to the Bible.\u00a0 It\u2019s what you might describe as a call to radical balance.\u00a0 We need balance, but the kind shot through with radicality, not tinged with tepid nothingness. Now, as much as ever, maybe more than ever, our world needs us to have a radical balance in our passion for the Bible, a radical balance in our time in the Bible and a radical balance in our approach to studying the Bible.<\/p>\n

A Radical Balance in Our Passion for the Bible<\/h3>\n

New studies are released all the time that tell what we have always known.\u00a0 A balanced diet is necessary for good health.\u00a0 Yet in our overly busy lives, a balanced diet often seems impossible.\u00a0 Note the increasing emphasis on dietary supplements, super foods and special pills.\u00a0 People think that taking a couple of pills each day will make up for a thoroughly imbalanced personal menu.<\/p>\n

In the same way many believers act as if there is a supplemental pill of Bible intake to make up for an imbalanced spiritual menu.\u00a0 We consume the spiritual junk food of the world all day, then try to balance it with a few verses here and there, or a brief devotional thought.
\nWe need to have a radical balance approach to the Bible.\u00a0 We need to pursue a more radical commitment to God\u2019s Word.\u00a0 Consider the hours of messaging the world can direct at us each day.\u00a0 The television, movies, internet, advertising, not to mention the soap opera lives being lived all around us, usually without the false happy endings of the soap operas.\u00a0 We need to bring a balance to our souls.\u00a0 This takes more than a supplemental pill of Bible reading.\u00a0 It takes a radical commitment to God\u2019s Word.\u00a0 Oh, give me that book!
\nAs we commit chunks of time to being in God\u2019s Word, we discover how great our God really is.\u00a0 As King David once wrote, we can taste and see that the Lord is good! (Psa.34:8)\u00a0 We read His Word and we discover Him.\u00a0 As we discover Him we find Him attractive, compelling, gripping.\u00a0 We give time to His Word and discover that He gives far more to us. He gives us Himself.\u00a0 As we read the written Word, we get to encounter the living Word of God.<\/p>\n

A Radical Balance in Our Bible Time<\/h3>\n

So let\u2019s say you commit a chunk of time to God\u2019s Word.\u00a0 What do you do with it?\u00a0 On the one hand, we need to be reading the whole Bible.\u00a0 Yet on the other hand, we find ourselves hungry to dig in and chew over smaller chunks of text.\u00a0 I suggest a balanced approach.<\/p>\n

AW Tozer once wrote that nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.\u00a0 We need to feed on the whole counsel of God.\u00a0 The Bible is a great book and we should give some of our time to enjoying it.\u00a0 So take whatever time you give to God\u2019s Word and divide it into two.\u00a0 The first half is what I refer to as the foundation.\u00a0 The foundation is simple \u2013 keep on reading through the Bible.<\/p>\n

Start at the beginning and move rapidly through the Bible.\u00a0 Then start again.\u00a0 If you give 40 minutes of your day to personal time in the Bible, then you\u2019ll want to give about 20 of those minutes to just reading the text.\u00a0 Cover to cover.\u00a0 In 20 minutes it is possible to move through quite a few chapters.\u00a0 In this time your goal is not retention of details.\u00a0 The goal is to get the big sweep of the Bible, to see the big picture.\u00a0 If you get to a long list of names, don\u2019t labor through each pronunciation, just see that it is a list of names, skim it and keep moving.\u00a0 Remember, in foundation time you don\u2019t want to try and retain loads of data.\u00a0 It\u2019s like pouring water through a sieve: it retains very little, but it does get clean!<\/p>\n

Then in the other half of your time, go deep.\u00a0 Use this time to soak in a specific part of the text.\u00a0 Charles Haddon Spurgeon once stated that he affirmed the value of reading several chapters of the Bible each day, but he also believed in the immense value of letting his soul soak in a few verses.\u00a0 \u201cOh, to be bathed in a text of Scripture, and to let it be sucked up in your very soul, till it saturates your heart!\u201d<\/p>\n

My suggestion is to build on the foundation one brick at a time.\u00a0 In the second half of your Bible time, saturate your soul in a chunk of Bible text.\u00a0 My preferred approach is to select a book of the Bible and study it.\u00a0 Which book?\u00a0 Whichever you are motivated to study.\u00a0 How?\u00a0 Using whatever Bible study skills you have.\u00a0 You might have a hunger for the book of James, which is just five chapters.\u00a0 Read it through multiple times.\u00a0 Graphically represent the flow of thought on paper.\u00a0 Write a song that presents the theology of James.\u00a0 Or in my case, I like to get to the point after 2-4 weeks where I can stand before the mirror and talk through the content of the book.\u00a0 However you study, try to let the book get a grip on your life, let it do its work in you.<\/p>\n

I think it is important to put closure on this kind of study.\u00a0 After a few weeks have passed I find my motivation shifting to another book.\u00a0 Great!\u00a0 I\u2019ll go there next.\u00a0 But first I want to put closure on my study of James.<\/p>\n

Perhaps I talk to the mirror, or write a synopsis in my journal.\u00a0 Then I thank God for the time in the book and celebrate having gotten to grips with the book (or the book getting to grips with me).\u00a0 Too often we lose motivation and beat ourselves up.\u00a0 It is healthier to bring closure and celebrate completion of another chapter in our devotional lives.\u00a0 Another brick is laid on the foundation and we can move on successfully!\u00a0 (How often people feel disheartened by repeated failure in Bible reading \u2013 like looking back on a commitment to read the whole thing, then quitting in Leviticus because they were retaining nothing and getting bogged down trying!)<\/p>\n

Time in God\u2019s Word is not a duty hanging over us.\u00a0 It is a delightful privilege that can and will stir our hearts if we allow it to do so.\u00a0 A free evening or an early wake up is a \u201cchance\u201d to read God\u2019s Word.\u00a0 Just as if you have a great book and some time, which you do!\u00a0 Once you get a taste for God\u2019s Word you\u2019ll be motivated to find ways to supplement your time each day.\u00a0 For instance, you can keep cranking through the text (the foundation reading), by listening on CD or MP3 while driving or working.<\/p>\n

A Radical Balance in Our Bible Study<\/h3>\n

Studying the Bible is really complicated, isn\u2019t it?\u00a0 I mean, isn\u2019t it just for very qualified scholars who dwell in dusty libraries?\u00a0 Actually no.\u00a0 We can be thankful for those scholars since they produce helpful tools for us to use.\u00a0 But studying God\u2019s Word is really as easy as 1-2-3.\u00a0 Actually, it\u2019s easier than that.\u00a0 It\u2019s as easy as 1-2.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s say you give an hour to personal Bible time.\u00a0 In the first half you are reading through the whole Bible at a good pace.\u00a0 In the second half you are studying a book or subject that motivates you (it\u2019s ok to take a subject now and then, when the motivation is there, but generally I would stick to choosing one book in the Bible at a time \u2013 God did give us 66 books, rather than a subject index!)<\/p>\n

Whatever book you are studying, remember what I call the Bible study bridge.\u00a0 This is the 1-2 of Bible study.\u00a0 It\u2019s simple, but many people undermine their Bible time by just doing 1, or, you guessed it, just doing 2.\u00a0 We need both for a healthy and radical balance in our Bible study.<\/p>\n

Step 1 is to read the text and think \u201cback then.\u201d\u00a0 What did David mean by what he wrote in this Psalm?\u00a0 What did Paul intend to communicate in this paragraph to the Ephesian Christians?\u00a0 What was Solomon saying in that pithy little proverb?\u00a0 Whatever kind of text it is, look at a chunk of it and figure out what the author\u2019s idea was in that chunk.\u00a0 What was he writing about, and what was he saying about what he was writing about.\u00a0 The first step in healthy Bible study is always to try to figure out the author\u2019s idea in his context (at that point in history, and at that point in the book!)<\/p>\n

Once you\u2019ve got a fair grasp of what the author intended by the story he wrote, or the instructions he gave, then you can, and must, move on to step 2.\u00a0 Step 2 is critical.\u00a0 If that was the author\u2019s idea in his context, what is the application of that idea in our context today?\u00a0 Sometimes the step over 2000 years of history and across languages and culture is clear.\u00a0 The whole Trinity was involved in their salvation to praise of His glory (Ephesians 1:3-14), so the whole Trinity was also involved in my salvation, so I should also praise the glory of His grace!<\/p>\n

Sometimes the move from step 1 to 2 takes some careful thought.\u00a0 Israel was instructed to celebrate God\u2019s goodness through annual feasts and festivals (Leviticus 23).\u00a0 Today what are the ways we can make sure we don\u2019t forget what God has done for us?\u00a0 Perhaps communion?\u00a0 Perhaps a more \u201cChristian\u201d Christmas?\u00a0 Step 2 makes you think about applying the Bible in your own life today.\u00a0 That is critical to spiritual health.<\/p>\n

Some people love application and quickly try to apply anything they read without understanding it first.\u00a0 Others love the history and process of interpretation so much that they never make a specific and real move over to applying that truth today.\u00a0 Both of these approaches is imbalanced and unhealthy.\u00a0 We need balance.\u00a0 We need 1.\u00a0 We need 2.\u00a0 The author\u2019s idea in his context and the prayerfully applied idea in our context!<\/p>\n

Conclusion: Go For It!<\/h3>\n

So there you have it.\u00a0 We need a radically balanced passion for the Bible.\u00a0 If it is to balance out everything else that pours in through our eyes and ears, then we need to give it more than a few minutes now and then.\u00a0 We need a balance in our times in the Bible.\u00a0 Give half of the time to washing your soul by pouring the Bible through it (fast read throughs, maybe getting through the whole thing in a few months!)\u00a0 Give the other half of your time to prayerful study of a specific book for a while.\u00a0 Soak in that book until that book soaks into you.\u00a0 We need a balanced approach to Bible study.\u00a0 When we take the time to study a book, be sure to first understand the author\u2019s idea in that chunk of text, then follow through and consider the application of that idea in your situation right now.<\/p>\n

When we get into God\u2019s Word we taste and see that He is good!\u00a0 We develop an appetite for His Word because we have a passion for Him.\u00a0 Don\u2019t fall into the false thinking that a few verses now and then is enough to bring balance to your life.\u00a0 Instead let us be committed to a radically balanced approach to the Bible.\u00a0 A radical passion for balanced Bible times using a balanced 1-2 study method.\u00a0 It\u2019s simple, but it takes commitment.\u00a0 May God raise up a new generation of history changers \u2013 people as ordinary as you and I, people with a passion to read and study God\u2019s Word, to know Him and to apply His Word in our lives!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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