467: Bored with Bible Study? Faith Womack on How to Wrestle with the Tension of Scripture, The Mistakes Pastors and Teachers Make When Teaching the Bible, and Building a Faithful Hermeneutic

Win Today: Your Roadmap to Wholeness

Christopher Cook

Mental Health, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 528 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

There's a difference between loving the Bible and learning how to read it. For many, study has felt complicated, clinical, or—worst of all—boring. Some of us were discipled by personalities instead of passages; others learned to chase quick application while skipping context. This week on Win Today, Faith Womack, author of No More Boring Bible Study, joins me to rediscover a way of reading Scripture that is honest, thoughtful, and engaging. We wrestle with tension instead of flattening it; we name the mistakes that teachers and pastors often make, and we rebuild a faithful hermeneutic that carries you from observation to interpretation to application without distorting the text. If you've wanted easy methods, renewed energy for the grand story, and a path to encounter the Lord in the Word—not just opinions about the Word—this conversation is your on-ramp.

Guest Bio

Faith Womack is the author of No More Boring Bible Study: Why Taking Scripture Seriously Is Easier—and More Exciting—Than You Think and the creator behind Bible Nerd Ministries. Her work translates serious hermeneutics into clear, repeatable practices for everyday disciples. Today isn't about academic showmanship; it's about putting tools in your hands so you can read what's there and be formed by it.

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0:00.0	The Art of Leadership Network.
0:03.2	Christians hate me for that reason. I'll say, the Bible's not about you. It's about God. And that always irks them as well. But if we're just going to be logical about it, if we're willingly misusing it and if we don't have a heart posture of God, I want to be faithful to this. And you probably don't believe it's God's God's word. You probably just want it to benefit from it.
0:29.4	Helping you design your roadmap to wholeness from the inside out. This is Win Today.
0:39.4	And now, here's your host, Christopher Cook. Hey, you guys, welcome. I'm really glad you're here today because for the next two weeks,
0:45.4	we're doing a mini series on how to study scripture well. And it's a precursor to what's coming in our annual formed series in January. Here's what I mean. You can love the word and still read it
0:52.7	in a way that hollows your faith.
0:54.9	Proof texting verses, borrowing someone else's passion,
0:58.3	or chasing quick application while skipping the hard work of context.
1:02.9	Well, today my new friend Faith Womack joins me to teach a way of study that is both honest and alive.
1:10.1	We'll wrestle with the text instead of rounding its edges.
1:13.4	We'll name the common mistakes a lot of pastors and teachers make,
1:17.0	and we'll rebuild a faithful hermeneutic that carries you from observation
1:21.3	to interpretation to application.
1:24.7	Why?
1:25.8	So you can experience transformation and meet the Lord as he speaks, not just as
1:30.8	you wish he had spoken. So listen, if you've been disciples by personalities more than a faithful
1:36.5	reading of the word, or if your study feels stale, I really believe this conversation will give
1:41.8	you simple tools, fresh energy, and a road back to joy in scripture. I love the word. It's my passion to teach the word. I want all of us to grow in spiritual maturity. And that's why I'm really glad you're here. My conversation with Faith Womack is coming up in just a moment. But first, when we talk about wholeness here on Wynn today, we're not just talking
2:01.5	about your thoughts and emotions. We're talking about the kind of life where your daily choices
2:06.2	line up with your deepest values. If you're anything like me, your phone is always with you,
2:11.8	all day long, against your body, in your pocket, maybe on your nightstand as you sleep.
2:16.2	That's a problem most of us ignore, not because we don't care,
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