Giving the Sense – Introduction

Posted in Theology on January 3rd, 2012 at 9:03 pm

Giv­ing the Sense is a four week series on teach­ing the Bible that I’m teach­ing for my church. The name is drawn out of Nehemiah 8:8 where Ezra and the Scribes read from the Bible, trans­lated it for the peo­ple, and “gave the sense” so that the peo­ple could understand.

The goal of this class is to teach peo­ple to under­stand the “sense” of Scrip­ture and be able to teach that to oth­ers. I plan to post class notes, ran­dom side-thoughts, and class infor­ma­tion on this web­site. You can see what I have posted by going to teaching.cookieofdoom.com. I also have uploaded the notes from the first week.

Stay tuned for more notes and posts on the sub­ject of study­ing and teach­ing the Bible.

Comments

  • http://citygatestheology.org Samuel Irla­p­ati

    That was excellent.

    None of those books you men­tioned show how the Bible is a sin­gle story from Genesis to Revelation or how it is united in its mes­sage. How do you plan to go about show­ing that?

    • http://www.facebook.com/cookieofdoom DP Mikucki

      We talked about it quite a lot in class, espe­cially dur­ing the week on inter­pre­ta­tion. Addi­tion­ally, my favorite thing about Stott’s book is that it does a bet­ter job than any hermeneu­tics book I’ve seen at explain­ing the single-story and united nature of the Bible… even though you might not entirely agree with the message.

      Is there a book you’d sug­gest along those lines? I’ve got lots of time to read now, haha.

      • http://citygatestheology.org Samuel Irla­p­ati

        I have not read John Stott’s book. But yeah maybe i might not like it. I have read “Drama of Scrip­ture, The: Find­ing Our Place in the Bib­li­cal Story” and that was good. It is not as deep as i would like, but it was good. I also read “Announc­ing the King­dom: The Story of God’s Mis­sion in the Bible” but that was too reformed for me :) They used God’s sov­er­eignty in a way that the Bible does not use.

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