Well, how do I decode the point of a whole chapter of the Bible? Like how do I

summarize the main point of a whole song. Welcome back to the podcast.

That's the question we need to answer today

and if you're reading your Bible along with us

using the navigators Bible reading plan,

our reading schedule hits January 8th today. And that means we're reading. Our reading So it's a good time in our Bible reading to pause and ask Pastor John how he summarizes this and other whole chapters in whole Psalms.

Philip asks the question. It's a very good one.

Pastor John, I've really enjoyed the way that you go through

individual verses and explain them very clearly

by breaking them down and explaining each part.

I understand that meditating on small parts of scripture can help us really suck all the nourishment from it.

But sometimes my problem is in understanding entire chapters or larger sections of the Bible.

I read something like Psalm 8 and although I can understand small parts of these texts.

I really get lost and fail to follow the entire flow of an argument, or where a chapter is going.

I'm often confused by a whole Psalm that seems

disjointed to me too and can't follow how one line leads to the next. Could you

help me figure out ways to understand large sections of scripture as a whole rather than just small chunks disconnected from other parts?

Thank you.

Let me see if I can help first with an analogy, namely an analogy of a jigsaw

puzzle and then with an exhortation about the hard work of seeing a whole chapter whole and then give an example

from my own experience. Think of a larger unit of scripture, like a chapter or a few paragraphs or maybe several chapters.

Think of it as a jigsaw puzzle, a 500 piece jigsaw puzzle. For me this is just like the way I go about it. They're

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