Mine the Word

How shall I study the Bible? is a very big question with many answers. Those many answers seem to fall into one of three categories: (1) the Mood, (2) the Method, and (3) the Principles of Interpretation.

      The Mood has to do with the attitudes and expectations with which we study. The Method has to do with the skills we use as we actually "dig in and do it." The Principles of Interpretation are what we might call the "rules of understanding" that we should keep in mind, or discover, as we study. These principles affect how we interpret the Bible.

      This book focuses on the second of these three categories, the Method. Each lesson also includes a few comments about the Mood, but it is not the purpose of these lessons to discuss the Principles of Interpretation.