1. How Do You Read It? Pastor Nathan Weller March 12, 2017
Series: Questions Jesus Asked

3. “Without the questions, we could easily end up as spectators to who God is and what he is doing. Without the stories, we would be in
danger of inhabiting a depersonalized so-called existence without substance. The life we have given to us must not be depersonalized into information about God. And it must... (cont’d)

4. not be functionalized into a program of strategic planning for God
...not be functionalized into a program of strategic planning for God. When our lives are either depersonalized or functionalized, rationality diminishes and life leaks out. Jesus asks the questions that bring us into personal participation in his work of bringing us life, life and more life.”
--Eugene Peterson--

6. There is a temptation
to master the Bible, but
in the end, we want to
let it master us

8. 25 And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” 26 He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” 27 And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.”
--Luke (ESV)

12. The illustration
is nothing to you without the application.
You lack half wit. You crush all the particles down
into close conformity, and then walk back and forth on them.
--Marianne Moore, “To A Steamroller”--

14. But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
--Luke (ESV)

16. ...How do you read it?
--Luke (ESV)

18. 25 Just then a religion scholar stood up
with a question to test Jesus. “Teacher, what
do I need to do to get eternal life?”
26 He answered, “What’s written in God’s
Law? How do you interpret it?”
--Luke (The Message)

20. 1. What is the genre of literature?

21. 1. What is the genre of literature?
2. What is the context?

22. 1. What is the genre of literature?
2. What is the context?
3. What is the plain and obvious meaning?

23. 1. What is the genre of literature?
2. What is the context?
3. What is the plain and obvious meaning?
4. What does the rest of the Bible say?

24. 4. What does the rest of the Bible say?
Westminster Confession of Faith chapter I, article IX: The infallible rule of interpretation of Scripture is the Scripture itself: and therefore, when there is a question about the true and full sense of any Scripture (which is not manifold, but one), it must be searched and known by other places that speak more clearly.

25. 1. What is the genre of literature?
2. What is the context?
3. What is the plain and obvious meaning?
4. What does the rest of the Bible say?

26. 1. What is the genre of literature?
2. What is the context?
3. What is the plain and obvious meaning?
4. What does the rest of the Bible say?
5. How does this point to Jesus?

28. “The Bible has much to teach us, it is true,
about the nature of the universe, but so much
of the Scriptures seem intent on wooing us
rather than simply communicating to use. Our modern language fills how-to guides and instruction manuals for making life easier, but the Scriptures are saturated with stories, poetry, parables, songs and imagery that... (cont’d)

29. ...want to reveal a person, how he feels about
us and how he is forming us in his image.
Biblical revelation is less about what is revealed and more about who is revealed. Biblical revelation means that the temple curtain is torn, the glory is unleashed and God is on the loose.”
--Adam McHugh--

31. 39 You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me to have life.
--John (NIV)

33. 1. Praying the Psalms

34. 1. Praying the Psalms
2. Praying the Senses

35. 1. Praying the Psalms
2. Praying the Senses
3. Lectio divina

36. 1. Praying the Psalms
2. Praying the Senses
3. Lectio divina
a. Reading

37. 1. Praying the Psalms
2. Praying the Senses
3. Lectio divina
a. Reading
b. Meditation

38. 1. Praying the Psalms
2. Praying the Senses
3. Lectio divina
a. Reading
b. Meditation
c. Prayer

39. 1. Praying the Psalms
2. Praying the Senses
3. Lectio divina
a. Reading
b. Meditation
c. Prayer
d. Contemplation

41. How Do You Read It? Pastor Nathan Weller March 12, 2017
Series: Questions Jesus Asked