Jen Wilkin says your job as a reader of God's Word isn't to assign meaning to a text.

Your job is to ask, what did the author want me to know from what he has written here?

Those are two totally different things, and we need to help our women get into that mindset.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Choosing

Forgiveness for February 22, 2019.

Over the last couple of days, we've gotten a lesson on teaching from a master teacher.

Jen Wilkin has invested in women's lives for many years teaching Bible studies.

We wanted to learn from Jen's experience and multiply her insights among thousands of other teachers,

so we invited Jen to speak at a revive

our hearts revive conference. This was a conference for women's ministry leaders, and the theme was

women teaching women. I so enjoyed what Jen had to say at that conference, and I think you will

too. Today, Jen's going to get down to some of the

nitty-gritty details of how we can study God's word for ourselves and then teach other women.

Let's listen. The first point that I want of my nine points, which are probably going to go fine,

is that you would ask yourself and your students to distinguish between

devotional reading and studying, or just between topical studies and line-by-line study of the Bible.

So make a distinction between these things, and once you have your definitions of what each

of these things are,

you know devotional reading is, right? It's like you might read a psalm and meditate on it.

It's not a bad thing. It's actually a wonderful thing. But the problem is left to our own devices

and because we are so in touch with our emotions, a lot of times women will tend to gravitate

towards only devotional reading or towards only

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