This is another week i come to approach to SWORD in another way.
Rather than picking up a Verse, i try to read the Whole Chapter/Passage as a complete story. These are the things that i find and learn:
1.Context is indeed extremely important. One verse might can tell you something, but it is the context that put "truth" in the whole message. God's truth is constructed in a way that in not placed in one piece of message, but rather pieces of puzzle that need to be arranged with each other.
2. I read the book of Psalm, Bible is an emotionally real book. They are honest with who they are, and that it makes them real with God. Often time our approach to Bible is very rigid, in what i call as "thinking theology". Truth become an "idea" not a life that we lived driven by feeling and principle. Too bad
This is the things i learned from this week experience. Next week, i will start to try to do SWORD for the first 4 Songs of Psalm
Cheers!
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I like this layout better =) So much easier to read and it's nice and bright! Looking forward to more SWORD readings. God bless!
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