If you are like me, you’ve heard thousands of sermons over the years, yet you feel like you have only scratched the surface of the Bible’s message. It seems after all these years, all I am hearing is the same dozen messages preached over and over again in a handful of different ways.

Rather than digging into the text and teaching us what God was conveying to the original audience when the Books of the Bible were written, it seems that preachers are just focused on applications for us today.

I love the Gospel. I love reading the Bible. However, I also like to dig deeper. There are some verses and passages, that in our 21st century mindset, don’t seem very clear. We’ve heard explanations that don’t seem to satisfy.

Sadly, pastors and evangelists spend more time telling us what they believe the Bible means and almost no time, if any, teaching us how to study the Bible ourselves. Even most recently, I have discovered things in the Bible that I should have learned years ago.

For 40 years I have studied the Bible. I use a wide variety of tools and resources to try to understand the Bible the way it was meant to be understood. I have spent years trying to get into the mind of the original audiences that the Bible books were written to.  I’ve looked at the languages the Bible was written in. I’ve sat under some of the best Bible teachers and read some outstanding scholarly works.

I have met many people that have sat in a church pew for 40 years and know almost nothing about what the Bible says, or can actually defend what they believe using scripture. They know a few proof texts, but have no real knowledge. Sadly, I have met many pastors that have preached for 20 years and have little understanding of the Word beyond parroting the party line. The church needs teachers. They need to move past the milk and onto the meat. The church needs more than homilies, they need content. 

I hear pastors say that folks aren’t interested in deeper study, but I believe rather, that they are not given the chance or equipped to dig into the Bible on their own. There are so many amazing things in God’s word. Things that make one want to dig even deeper. But they need to be taught. Taught how to study God’s word. Taught where to find relevant information outside the Bible, using commentaries, history books, inter-linear study helps and other tools.

When Christians come together, they ought to be talking about what they are studying, what they have found and how it is impacting their faith and Christian walk.

I have discovered there is so much more to the Bible than the average Sunday morning sermon, or Bible study lesson gives us. Now, I want to share my studies with you.

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