Interpretation may be considered by the biblical text from different angles and different depths. Don't just read the text once, read multiple times. In addition, not simply look for the same things every time, you can search for different things to each reading. I have started thinking about how exegetical as one of the waves.
The first Wave-Home Introduction to your text
Here are introduced in the text. First you must pray for God's enlightenment. Then I read the text aloud. Not necessarily looking anything but God our word. This can be regarded as "Devotional" type of reading. However after reading this text, make sure everything that comes to mind-related text. Can you think about a hymn your grandmother used to sing. Note that if it is related. You might be thinking that a singing Gospel. You think may be of a television broadcast or a story.Can you think of other Biblical characters and ideas; a particular word may protrude. All these things it should be noted and recorded.
May be there are some things you don't understand, go ahead and make a note of them, it'll be parties to return to note all these things and try to be reduced to one-two pages. This process can become compact will help you understand the text.
The second Wave-Traveling in deeper text
Here we try to answer all the questions we can answer from the Bible without referring to commentaries, dictionaries and other folks to be lectured. Want to look at but references. For this I would suggest that the Ministry of Finance of Scriptural knowledge. Look up important aspects of the text in this book and find all references. This will help to round out your knowledge of the text, in particular by examining other texts.
I want to tell the story in text. What is the narration? What runs?What are the characters? What do the characters? what does God? These are some of the questions will prompt you during this phase. You also need to consider the use of energy in the text.Who has the power; how do we get the power? Benefit from the power?
In addition to examine the theology presented in the text. What has to say about God's story?What has to say about what is transcendent?What has to say about living in this world?
Finally, you want to make particular reference to HOW the author of the text tells the story of what words used?Why the author should use these types of words? What arguments are used? How they relate to us; during this phase you will use cross references and a number of Bible translations.The key is that we are only the Bible.
Then refine your analysis page one-two to include what I have discovered during this phase.
The third Wave-assistance etc.
You now want to see the issues that are still left and search them using Bible dictionaries and comments what others have said the story? matches your comments? Do you think that the commentary should improve the understanding or you can improve yours?
Another important source is priests for others. Find others who have preached about the issue and to skim it. You can often find valuable material such as illustrations and similar articles of such an act.
And then you can also use religious resources.Our friends the most certainly you will see what he has to say about John Wesley. Those of the reformed tradition will break open John Calvin can obtain information about the topic. Here you can see what others from your ecclesial heritage had to say on the matter.
Continue and enhance the interpretation again with what you have been discovered here.
The fourth Wave-Walking through the text
You are now ready for what I see as a very important stage that is often overlooked. Here you should take a ride with the text.You need to walk and to live in the text.If your sermon about the sermon on the mount, then you aren't ready to preach this until you have experienced the first, second and third wave, and then on foot of the text.You should consider during the mount.How does this look?If you don't know then pull a book geography and the dictionary Paper again and see how's the weather like?You may not know, but you might get some form of vision a good Bible Dictionary. what kind of foliage is around you?What is the temperature?
How many were there listening?Where your meeting?How Jesus audio voice? there are other competing sounds? What you smell? there are animals near by?
And finally, ask yourself these questions emotions into characters. What emotion has Jesus? How he shows what? what's happening with listeners? there are some smiling and other frowning? What does stir your emotions this?
Can't answer all these questions, but you can answer many of them; And in response to these types of questions will help really around the text, and also helping others experience the text.
Might have wondered "what difference does this stuff?"This is a good question. Let me say that I preached a sermon once enriched by my knowledge of the extent of desert that Jesus was "driven" by the Holy Ghost; The terrain was to downward. talk on how Jesus was driven in a territory that was to be downwards to a dead sea? can help someone who feels like were shipped within a desert by God, but not limited to, a desert, but one is down?
After doing this improve the analysis again, and you are now ready to begin building your sermon.
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