I need a new study method...any suggestions?

[Seth&Mattsmom]

About 5 years ago I realized what being a Christian really meant. At that time I started reading through the Bible, a book at a time, until I covered all the books. Something I had never done before.
And I make sure to read every day.

This worked really well, and I think it took me about 2 years to get through the whole thing. Then I went back and started in the Old Testament again, since I need a little more understanding of a lot of it. That took another year.

After that, every time I finished a book, I would pray for God to lead me to the next book in the Bible He wanted me to read. So this has worked very well for me for a while...up until now.

So now I am a stronger Christian, more familiar with my Bible. I am not feeling the push to read from certain books any longer. I still feel the need to get into the Word, but I am starting to just flit here and there, and I am longing to sit down and get meaty. Right now I am reading a Psalm every night to my children, then later I will just thumb around in the New Testament in the gospels, since they are so familiar to me that I feel like I need to refresh myself because I am taking them for granted.

Sooo...any suggestions? How do you do your daily Bible study? Do you just follow a set reading plan? Use Bible study manuals?

 

[Hope of Glory]

You could try doing a word study. Pick a passage, and do a word search on particular words and read those passages. If you need a program to help you do that, drop me a PM. It's freeware, and it will let you search in the Greek (so you know you're actually studying the same word), and you don't even have to know Greek to do the search.

 

[Plain Old Bill]

Have you studied all of the doctrines of the Bible or have you done a study of the life of Christ?Based on what you are telling us here those would be my next two steps.

 

[mnw]

I would recommend a combination of general devotional reading and specific study.

Here are four ways to read through the Bible in a year. http://www.wholesomewords.org/family/bibleread/biblerea.html Some are more challenging than others.

As well as this devotional type of reading do specific studies. It might be studying a Biblical character, a particular doctrine or just a word as it is used through Scripture.

Whether we read a particular passage or book 100 times or for the first time, there should always be something we need to read.

 

[Gwen]

Have you ever been to a Women's Bible Study class? We will be studying one of the "Following God" series this fall. It is really helpful, because you have some accountability. Also, if there is a passage you don't really understand, there are other women there to discuss things with. Lots of fun and fellowship, too!