Week 24 & 25 —1st John Bible Nerd-Study
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1 John 2:12-17 Manna + Memory + Paraphrase (6 verses for 2 weeks). Use your normal translation for both weeks.
Hey everyone, these will be our last weeks without commentaries. In general, I try to not use commentaries until after reading through the first 25 times. By that point, I'm well into my detailed outline of the book and I'm actually very interested in what others have to say, what nuggets of gold they've discovered, etc.
Some of us are still catching up, and others may almost find the study boring without enough direction. That's probably normal for Bible study. You either are hungry for a lot more or you are overwhelmed by it. Then sometimes you're at the sweet spot of enjoyment and enlightenment. It's the drudgery of the regular study that brings out the depth of light and life that we may hear in a good sermon or read in a good book or commentary. It's the choice to read it again, to meditate on it, to memorize it, to wrestle with a verse until you can explain it to others (paraphrase).
The plan after these two weeks basically:
1) We'll continue to slowly do Manna+Memory+Paraphrase for the rest of the book. If the Lord wills, and we live, "and the creek don't rise", we'll do that for 22 more weeks. I'll post separately the schedule for that, but it's pretty simple.
2) We'll continue to check out various translations of 1 John. If you know an odd one that you want to suggest please do.
3) We'll begin opening up commentaries. I'll bring up some of the older commentaries and a few new ones. Any are welcome to share from commentaries starting in week 26.
4) The last 5 weeks of the year we'll still need to read 3 more times to reach our goal of 50 times. We'll focus on cleaning up our notes, finishing our assignments, and sharing our findings with each other.
*Encouraged to be in this study with everyone.
1 John 2:12-17 Manna + Memory + Paraphrase (6 verses for 2 weeks). Use your normal translation for both weeks.
Hey everyone, these will be our last weeks without commentaries. In general, I try to not use commentaries until after reading through the first 25 times. By that point, I'm well into my detailed outline of the book and I'm actually very interested in what others have to say, what nuggets of gold they've discovered, etc.
Some of us are still catching up, and others may almost find the study boring without enough direction. That's probably normal for Bible study. You either are hungry for a lot more or you are overwhelmed by it. Then sometimes you're at the sweet spot of enjoyment and enlightenment. It's the drudgery of the regular study that brings out the depth of light and life that we may hear in a good sermon or read in a good book or commentary. It's the choice to read it again, to meditate on it, to memorize it, to wrestle with a verse until you can explain it to others (paraphrase).
The plan after these two weeks basically:
1) We'll continue to slowly do Manna+Memory+Paraphrase for the rest of the book. If the Lord wills, and we live, "and the creek don't rise", we'll do that for 22 more weeks. I'll post separately the schedule for that, but it's pretty simple.
2) We'll continue to check out various translations of 1 John. If you know an odd one that you want to suggest please do.
3) We'll begin opening up commentaries. I'll bring up some of the older commentaries and a few new ones. Any are welcome to share from commentaries starting in week 26.
4) The last 5 weeks of the year we'll still need to read 3 more times to reach our goal of 50 times. We'll focus on cleaning up our notes, finishing our assignments, and sharing our findings with each other.
*Encouraged to be in this study with everyone.
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