Last month we wrapped up our series on the “Six W’s of Reading the Bible.” Our final two W’s were why and whatfor. In case you were wondering, whatfor is just a w-word for “so what?” The title of this series would have sounded pretty dumb if we had called it “5 W’s and So What?” Answering these questions won’t typically require much except your trusty Bible and your notes from the last four questions.
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The Nines
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Today, 9/9/2009, Leadership Network is hosting an online conference called The Nines for church leaders. This broadcast is free to view with no registration required. I caught wind of this through a Facebook post by Russel, our Preacher. The plan here is to have a ton of church leaders present a nine minute presentation with this prompt: If you had 9 minutes to sit down with leaders one-on-one, what would you tell them?
Six W’s, When & Where
Monday, August 31st, 2009Recently, we continued our series on textual Bible study by exploring the when and where questions that are involved in reading a passage. We continue to explore the book of Titus and practice this reading in small groups during Bible class on Sunday morning. Both when and where help to frame the story in context. The assistance of a good Bible handbook can help to make these questions much easier to answer, especially when one is looking for specific dates or locations on a map.
Six W’s, Who & What
Monday, August 17th, 2009The past two weeks, we have been studying the first two of the “Six W’s of Reading the Bible” … I place that in quotes only because that’s what I scribbled across the top of my lesson notes. This is really nothing special and exactly what you would expect: who, what, when, where, why, how (whatfor). (We say “whatfor” because “Six W’s” sounds cooler than “Five W’s and an H!”)
This little series is based largely on an adult class that Doug Henson is teaching on Sunday mornings. I have mentioned more than once that it would be good for all of us to go through that class at least once; until then, we’ll pick up the cliff notes in our own class.
