Nathan writes into asks, Pastor John, you mentioned an episode one of seven, the one of your

seminary professors, Stan Fuller, helped to establish your framework for how to rightly

read and interpret descriptors, called arcing.

I was wondering if you could give me one piece of advice to help me better read my English

Bible better.

Okay, since you just asked for one, here it is, write down the text with a pen and paper,

not with a computer.

Don't type it on a computer.

Copy it out of your Bible with a pen on paper, either just a plain old sheet of paper

or by yourself a nice mole skin, call this notebook that you just bought, your written

Bible, and here's why, I'm saying write it out, here's why.

When I was in seminary, 23 years old, this 44 years ago, I began to see how when I began

to learn arcing from Dan Fuller, which had a step in it of writing every proposition

of every paragraph on a different line and figuring out how those propositions relate

to each other.

I discovered that the very writing caused me to see things.

So a few weeks later, after I began to see that, a young woman came up to me at Lake Avenue

Church and she said, I'm not getting anything out of my Bible reading.

You got any ideas for me and I said, why don't you try to write it down?

Just make that part of your Bible reading this week.

She came back to me a week later and said, I can't believe it.

I can't believe what I'm seeing and she was so excited.

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