Sermon For Kids - Teaching Youth How to Study the Bible (Basic Checklist)

Sermon For Kids - Teaching Youth How

to Study the Bible (Basic Checklist)

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Basic principles to help youth who are studying the Bible understand it more effectively and apply it accurately to life and thoughts.

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Five Principles of Bible study• Ask the right

questions.• Write down what you

observe and discover.• Apply your discovery

to your life and thoughts.

• Study the Bible systematically.

• Strive to exhaust the passage you are studying.

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Bible Study Tools in Order of Importance• Translation of the

Bible• Concordance• Dictionary• Bible Dictionary• Commentary

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Methodical Bible study• Pray for the Holy Spirit’s

guidance and insight.• Make observations by

asking questions.• Seek answers from the

scripture and then tools in order of importance.

• Apply the scripture to your life.

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Questions to Ask When Studying the Bible• What is the historical

setting?• What is the literary form?• What are the key words?• What important

grammatical structure do I observe?

• What is the tense of the verbs?

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• Is there something contrasted?

• Is there a paradox?• Is the passage dependant

on a preceding passage?• Ask six questions: What?

Who? Where? When? Why? and How?

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Application of a Bible Passage• Is there a promise to claim?• Is there a command to obey?• Is there a sin to confess?• Is there a teaching to absorb?

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Common Pitfalls of Youth Studying the Bible• Looking past the obvious

for the hidden.• Failure to consider the

historical in rushing to application.

• Narrow vision. (All scripture is true all the time.)

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• Lack of discernment as to what is cultural and what is eternal.

• Lack of respect for God’s Word. (God’s Word means what it means, regardless of our beliefs or opinions.)

• Superstitious approach to God’s Word.

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