As I was leading a discussion with 3 other guys about getting more meat out of devotional time I was challenged by the words I was saying to encourage them. I used to study the Bible with intention rather than routine daily duty. Now I read for about 10 min and then pray for 5-10. It makes a nice devotional time. A nice glass of milk in the morning and then run all day on that feeding. I need that glass of milk (15 min of easy devo time), but I need to follow that up some meat later in that day. So in the next 30 days I will be doing a deeper study into the book of Hebrews. I might not do it every day of in depth, but I will put 3 hrs towards study beyond my milk time per week. Here is my plan...
1) Read Hebrews all the way through 1 time, no notes, no assumptions, not trying to get any hidden meaning out of it.
2) Read back ground notes from Bible dictionaries and write down important notes like, where, when, why, how, culture relevance, to whom.
3) Read Hebrews a couple of times only jotting down breaks in ideas and where the topic changes. This will help create an outline.
4) Go per section of the brief outline and create a more detailed outline as sub points.
5) Dig into Hebrews with the notes that have already been taken and extra commentaries. At this time Hebrews will be divided into manageable portions of meat.
I will post my progress to keep myself accountable. Goodluck to myself.
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Sounds like a great plan and that you're doing some great groundwork. Hope to hear soon how it's going for you.
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