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Girls Night with Stephanie May Wilson

Girls Night #92: How to Read the Bible (and Actually Understand What it Means!) with Gretchen Saffles

Girls Night with Stephanie May Wilson

Stephanie May Wilson

Self-improvement, Education, Relationships, Society & Culture, How To

4.94K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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In this episode, Gretchen Saffles from Well-Watered Woman is going to teach us what the Bible is, why God gave it to us and how to read the Bible (and actually understand it). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey friends, welcome to Girls Night. I'm Stephanie May Wilson and I am so happy that you're

0:09.6

here. Each week I have a girlfriend over and we talk through one of the biggest questions

0:14.0

we have about our lives as women. We're talking about friendships and faith and relationships

0:19.5

and self-confidence. About our calling in life and how to live every bit of our lives to

0:23.9

the absolute full. Life is so much better and easier and absolutely more fun when we navigate

0:30.0

it together as girlfriends and I cannot wait to get started. Our guest for today's episode

0:34.9

is my new friend, Gretchen Safels. And can I just say you guys are going to love Gretchen.

0:40.7

She and I were instant friends and I know you will feel the exact same way. Gretchen is a wife,

0:46.2

a mama, and the founder of a global online women's ministry called Well-Watered Women.

0:51.7

She's also a passionate writer and has amazing wisdom when it comes to reading and understanding

0:56.0

the Bible. And today that's exactly what we're talking about. How to read the Bible, which, if

1:02.0

we're honest, can be really hard to figure out sometimes. But that's why I'm so glad we have

1:06.5

Gretchen here. Gretchen is going to help us answer some really foundational questions. Questions

1:12.1

like, what even is the Bible? Why did God give it to us and why is it so important that we read it?

1:18.8

She's also going to help us out with some really practical questions like,

1:22.4

what translation of the Bible should we be reading? Is there a book of the Bible we should start with?

1:26.8

And how do we begin to actually understand the Bible and apply it to our lives? Instead of

1:31.4

flipping to random pages, hoping God will speak to us. Gretchen is going to talk us through

1:36.1

all of this and I am so excited. Friends, whether you are new to your faith or have been a

1:40.9

Christian for years, my hope is that this episode will make reading the Bible way less intimidating

1:46.1

and that it will reignite your passion for God's Word. But before we dive in, I have a resource

1:52.2

I wanted to make sure to share with you. It's called the lipstick gospel devotional and here is

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