Bible teachers
1. The Saturation Approach
We taught on the saturation approach, it is like osmose. When the roots stayed on the soil, it absorbs. If you read a passage forty times in January, you read the same passage forty times in June, you read the same passage forty times in December, you will absorb different things each time; If in the second year you read it again 40 times and in the second year forty times, especially with the epistles, you will absorb them, it enters you, the Word of God penetrates you. That is what they call the saturation approach. Like the epistles of Paul, I learn that approach on my own as I stumble on it, I just find that I needed to read, especially like Ephesians which I read 50 times, before analysing it
2. The Emotional Approach
Another approach I taught them is the emotional approach. In that approach, you enter the passage, you live it, like a historical book. 1 Samuel and all those historical books, you will understand many things only by living the passage, imagining it. But there are many people who are not born with an imaginative mind. You notice that the different approaches are based on different personalities, our personalities are different, God speaks to us differently. Even in our human relationships, we respond and we communicate differently, we perceive and receive things differently.
3. The Analytic Approach
The other approach is the analytic approach, it is taking a passage and analyse it, using the tools of Kipling. Why? When? What? Who? How? Where? By using those six servants of Rhodia Kipling, he has adopted these six servants as basic tools for analysis. When you have a passage, you ask: who is in this passage? How do they interact? What is the passage talking about? Why are they doing the things? When? What are the time elements in the passage, how? What happened before the other or after the other?
Where is it taking place? By using all those servants of Rhodia Kipling. That is the simplest approach for analysis, there are other analytical approaches.
4. The Dialectical Approach
The fourth approach I told them, was the dialectical approach, you take a passage, you look at the paragraphs and bring out the main thought, then you go down to the sentences of each paragraph, bring out the main thought, you look at the phrases and the syntax and you bring out the building block and then you study the words in order to get the feel of what is taking place, then after that, you reconstruct it again. It consists on breaking down to the smallest expression and to reconstruct it. It is the understanding that a passage is like a building, you break it down in order to
understand then you reconstruct it in order to have the sense.
Dialectic follow 3 principles:
1. Thesis: The main ideas:
2. Anti thesis - the context of contrary ideas
3. Synthesis - what comes out when all factors are taken together
The students of the Bible should also develop biblical dialectic.
5. The Thematic Approach
The fifth approach was the thematic approach, where you take a theme and you try to identify all the passages and references and you study all those passages in order to have the complete idea about it. For example, the women of the bible, they are about 175. when you finish studying the wicked, the model, the insignificant, etc... when you have looked at all of them and you want to understand why the bible says the church is the bride of Jesus, you can understand the vocation of the church by understanding the vocation of womanhood. So, according to the Bible, Jezebel, though she was a human being, she is a kind of church,
Eve is a kind of church,
Deborah is a kind of church,
that is thematic.
Or you can study the Blood of Jesus, you can study the Death of Jesus. There is the thematic approach. In order to have a clear idea about important things. So, we taught them a bit about the thematic approach
6. The Biographical Approach
The biographical approach, where you study the personalities of the Bible, in order to learn from them, in their dealing with God and in their service for God. When you want to produce evangelists in the church, you must study who were the evangelists of the Bible. By studying the evangelists of the Bible, you may begin to understand what you need to do to produce the evangelists of the church. So, there are the biographical approach. I use it a lot. When I want to teach those who are leading prayer houses, I ask myself: was there any person in the bible who was leading a house church? Let me look at her so I may know what I am to teach our people. leaders to study the leaders in order to enter a school of leadership, who of the leaders succeeded? Which one stayed? I resemble who?
That is the biographical approach
7. The Panoramic Approach
Then there was the panoramic approach, it is camera and telecopy. That is to take the whole picture, the different trends and their inter-relatedness, it is bringing the drama, the context and the purpose together.
I need one of those who were there to start teaching them.
Pray that some people will arise, some people who will give the Bible back to the brethren, so that it can be a book of God for them
We need to have dignity, not pride.
Don't make your weight over anybody, you should not receive a service that anyone does not want to give you. Don't enslave yourself to service people would not want to offer to you. You need somebody to tell you to stop your covetousness. You see somebody's lap top and you want to have it, you are just useless. If you cannot afford it, why do you desire it. You are committing sin, you don't have a need.
You are not permitted to have a need for which you don't have the means, that is what it means to be covetous. An honest man plans his needs according to his means. To have desires that you cannot afford, you are a spineless vegetable man.
Dignity means that you are contented with what you have
BTA, PFC2017, Day 33
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