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Strategies for Bible Engagement

  1. Lesson One
    The Bible Tells God’s Story
    8 Activities
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    1 Assessment
  2. Lesson Two
    The Power of God’s Story
    7 Activities
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    1 Assessment
  3. Lesson Three
    The Message of God’s Story
    7 Activities
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    1 Assessment
  4. Lesson Four
    The Reader of God’s Story
    7 Activities
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    1 Assessment
  5. Lesson Five
    The Context of God’s Story
    7 Activities
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    1 Assessment
  6. Course Wrap-Up
    Course Completion
    2 Activities

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The Bible as God’s story is God’s eternal Word, which nourishes the church in every generation. But the Bible also is totally contextualized. It was written in a particular language to a particular people who lived at a specific time and place. But that’s good news for us today, because it means that God values our context as well. We can be assured that our context does not inhibit our living into God’s story today. And we can embrace the entire canon of Scripture, we can discern God’s voice across the centuries, and there we find repeated refrains and convictions that guide our reading then of individual books and passages.

– Lynn Cohick, PhD

In this lesson, you learned how to:

  1. Discern the truths in Scripture that transcend culture or context.
  2. Identify strategies for understanding the original context and intention of a passage.
  3. Reflect on how you can read the Bible with the goal of allowing God to speak into your life.

Continue to the next activities to fulfill the final requirements for course completion.