Prep 5. Avoiding Common Mistakes: What to Look for When You Read the Bible

The Bible Recap

Tara-Leigh Cobble

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

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🗓️ 18 December 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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0:00.0	Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.
0:07.0	If you and I'm going to spend a year and hopefully the rest of our lives reading through the Bible, let's aim to do it well.
0:18.5	Today I'm going to talk about the three primary mistakes I made during my first trip through scripture and tell you how to
0:23.8	avoid them. Hopefully you'll be able to get the hang of this much quicker than I did and with fewer
0:27.6	pitfalls. My first major mistake and the one I think we're all naturally inclined to make is that I was looking for myself in
0:34.2	scripture.
0:35.2	Maybe it was the result of my church upbringing, but I'd come to view the Bible as a big to-do list,
0:39.4	even though I knew that wasn't the primary message.
0:42.1	It's hard to rewire the way you think about
0:43.8	scripture if you've held a certain view for a long time. But one thing that
0:47.1	really helped me was asking myself a few questions each time I read. Number
0:51.4	one, what did God say in this passage? Number two, what did God do in this
0:56.0	passage? Number three, why did God do or say what God said or did in this passage?
1:01.1	Number four, what did I learn about what God loves? Number five,
1:05.6	what did I learn about what God hates? Number six, what did I learn about who God is?
1:11.1	If you can't find God in the passage, look harder.
1:14.3	Ask yourself, what's happening in these pages that could be attributed to God?
1:18.0	There's only one book of the Bible that doesn't mention the name of God, Esther, but even in the absence of his name, the pages are
1:24.7	saturated with his actions.
1:27.2	So when you're in a section like that, try asking yourself, what is he doing behind the scenes?
1:32.0	What's he doing in the hearts of the people we're reading about?
1:34.0	Why did he put this section in his book?
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