Explain what those five are and, then, let’s go back and unpack each of them. In the process of discovering how to study the Bible, you came up with an approach that is around five “P’s.”ĭennis: I think it’s a good way to look at Bible study. That’s who actually wrote the Foreword to this book, Women of the Word-that’s Matt Chandler, who wrote the Foreword.ĭennis: You know, we started this by you talking about your own personal crisis of faith as you became a mom and realized you were next in line to pass on the truth of God’s Word to your kids and realized how inept-at least, you expressed that-how you felt in passing it on. Jen-welcome back.ĭennis: She’s a speaker, writer, teacher of-not just any women’s Bible study, but over 650-and they cap it off at that-got a lot of folks coming out. The goal here is for God’s Word to change us right?ĭennis: It is, and Jen Wilkin has been helping us do that. I think that there are all kinds of people beginning to scratch, spiritually, in their hearts and in their minds to figure out: “How do I do a better job of studying the Bible?”īob: We’ve been having this conversation about getting into the Word in a different way than a lot of us have been trained to spend time in God’s Word. So, you think we’ve offered any help this week or just explained to people how they are messed up? ĭennis: I think we have dusted some minds with itching powder. Before we look to God’s Word to see what it has to say to us about us, we ought to be asking, “What does it have to say about God?” Stay tuned.Īnd welcome to FamilyLife Today. Our host is the President of FamilyLife ®, Dennis Rainey, and I’m Bob Lepine.

So, when we study, we should be looking for that.īob: This is FamilyLife Today for Wednesday, March 11 th. Beginning to end, that’s what its job is to do-is to declare, to us, the nature and the character of God.

Jen: Most people approach the Bible, wanting to see a vision of themselves-“What is this going to do to change my life?”-but the Bible is a vision of God, high and lifted up. Author and Bible study leader, Jen Wilkin, agrees. Packer, said the problem with the evangelical church was that the gospel had become man-centered instead of being fundamentally God-centered.

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