1. Bible Study Methods & Contemporary Issues

2. Welcome to Bible Study Methods & Contemporary Issues
Make sure you get a handout or paper.
Bible My

3. Why Study the Bible?
State of our Hearts, Minds, Souls, and Bodies -- they are all tied together.

4. Rick Warren’s Bible Study Methods
12 Twelve Ways You Can Unlock God’s Word

5. Rick Warren’s Bible Study Methods
Thematic Approach

6. Contemporary Issues Internet What are the issues involved?
What are the prevailing attitudes of the culture?
What areas of absolutes and freedoms apply?

7. Time Usage – Waste/Redeem 
Communication – Gossip/Encouragement
Moral -- Lust/Purity
Mind – Lies/Truth
Imagination – Self or God Focused
Stuff – Envy/Contentment

8. Time Usage – Waste/Redeem
Ephesians 5:15-16
Psalm 90:12; 39:4,
1 Corinthians 9:26-27 
Eph. 4:28
2 Thess. 3:6-13
1 Thess. 4:9-12

9. Communication – Gossip/Encouragement
Colossians 4:5-6 
Eph. 4:29-32
1 Peter 2:1-2

10. Moral -- Lust/Purity
Matt. 5:27-30
Romans 1:21-27
Philippians 4:8-9

11. Mind – Lies/Truth
Romans 12:1-2
Philippians 4:8-9
Romans 1:21-23
Rom. 1:28-32
Eph. 4:17-24
Eph. 5:3-21

12. Imagination – Self or God Focused
Romans 1:21-23
Rom. 1:28-32
Romans 12:1-2
Philippians 4:8-9
Eph. 4:17-24
Eph. 5:3-21

13. Stuff – Envy/Contentment
Titus 3:1-3
1 Tim. 6:6-12
Luke 12:15-21

14. Contemporary Issues
Categorized By: Relational/Structural Moral/Ethical Obvious Overlapping

15. Contemporary Issues
Who do you listen to? Write down the name of the person you go to:
Concerning your car?
Concerning your money?
Concerning your relationships?

16. Contemporary Issues What standard do you use to judge:
What is right in the work place?
What is right in your family?
What is right when no one is looking?

17. Contemporary Issues
Who has the authority?

18. Contemporary Issues The Bible teaches us through: Didactic Statements
Stories
Eastern Literature: not always linear like Greek thought

19. Contemporary Issues Relational/Structural
How does God introduce and describe these areas?
Positive and Negative examples.

20. Contemporary Issues Moral/Ethical Didactic Passages
Positive and Negative examples.
Ceremonial Laws

21. Contemporary Issues Competing Values, Competing Presuppositions
The character of God is never out of balance. It always has the long term best in store for us.
The culture has echoes, hints, remnants, of truth but it is always out of balance. (Romans 1&2)

22. Contemporary Issues
What is at the core of the issue? There are always symptoms, but what is the foundational disagreement? The presuppositions involved?
Don’t oversimplify or create a “straw man” – take people seriously.

23. Contemporary Issues
View of humanity
View of knowledge

24. Contemporary Issues
Who has the authority?

25. Contemporary Issues
Sin:
Two Categories?
Absolutes
Freedoms

26. Contemporary Issues Sin: Absolutes Ten Commandments (Ethical/Moral)
Structures
(God Given Patterns)

27. Contemporary Issues Sin: Freedoms You Stumble Make Others Stumble
Romans 14, 1st Corinthians 8&9

28. Our Own Convictions Working With the Culture Who has the authority?
Contemporary Issues
Our Own Convictions Working With the Culture Who has the authority?