Christ Church United Methodist - Tucson
United, we are for the sake of God.
  • Home
  • Worship Info
  • Spiritual Growth
  • Community Outreach
  • Contact Us
read-bible

How to Read Your Bible and Get Something Out of it Every Time

February 12, 2021 Spiritual

Reading your Bible doesn’t have to be a duty. It can be fun, enjoyable, and incredibly relevant in your daily life. Even for the majority of Christians who do read their Bible on a daily basis, they do so out of a sense of obligation rather than desire.

If this is true, then I think it’s time to consider another option for reading your Bible; how you can take your Bible with you wherever you go. After all, it is infinitely more valuable to go with the flow than it is to plop down your privileges to attend church, sing in the choir, read the approved teachings, or sit in the honored guest speaker’s pulpit and listen to incense-filled sermons.

Reading your Bible should not be limited to “authorized” types. Think about a medical doctor or a military general. Is there anywhere that you would not be scoffed at for choosing to read on a military base or in a medicine factory? Yet, Christianity itself is made of layers and there is no definitive authority figure that designed the layers. Scripture itself is composite of many layers, writings, cities, laws, themes, ethics, and its entirety was shaped by collaboration. But I know of no one that designed “authorized” Bible translations, at least in any of the “new” translations.

Many of the earlier American translations of the Bible were stony and were hardly the most appetizing either. Yet, that was no excuse to toss them aside. They were the most helpful for the people at that time because they were the most intuitive. The new translations were purposed more as a business necessity-to help people speak and understand English. Even Scientific studies have shown that people who read-only “formula” types of addressed Bibles and studies them proved their own weak understanding of the text and viewpoint. And so, I feel the new version should be the most beneficial for the serious Bible student, and not replace the less demanding, but more expensive, hand-annotated versions.

One of my favorite features of the modern daily English translations is that they’ve brought our version of Scripture into the 21st Century. Many, however, argue that the changes from the 1611 English Standard Version to the 1980’s NIV (the works of Jerome, Trenchant, and others) are rises in interpretability terminology and are totally inaccurate. They argue that people have changed in the millennia since. Emboldened by events like, “The Message,” Teaching in the New Testament(Simon and Schuster), ActionScripture (Zondervan), World International Bible congregation, and others, they maintain that its words, not phrases, that are the essence of the Bible and that the changes are merely worded usage and diction.

This is a valid point, which can easily be proven by studying every example of a specific Bible word in its original context. But that said, there’s no substitute for experience and it’s in the word limits that many of us have experienced the most spiritual nourishment found in our daily devotion.

So begin by sitting down to read your Bible. Get off the web and begin the journey that will change your life forever.

Prayer That Gets Results Spend Time Praying to God Everyday

Related Posts

hands-pray-2168901_1280

Spiritual/

Spend Time Praying to God Everyday

The first step to spending time praying to God every day is to become more aware of your religious beliefs. Many people put so much importance on their religion, that they forget about the basic fundamentals of it. People usually hold on to their religious beliefs for too long and sometimes, they start to believe […]

praying-woman

Spiritual/

Prayer That Gets Results

Why does prayer not work for us any better than it currently does? It’s certainly not because God has no interest in what we have to say. Think about it. We know He is interested in hearing from us because He is the one who came up with this thing called prayer, and the sole […]

Latest Sermon

Recent Posts

  • Spend Time Praying to God Everyday
  • How to Read Your Bible and Get Something Out of it Every Time
  • Prayer That Gets Results

Categories

  • Spiritual

Archives

  • February 2021
  • July 2020

Christ Church United Methodist – Tucson
  • Site Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • Contact Us
© Christ Church United Methodist - Tucson 2021