Follow the Bible’s Larger Story

To help guide you to stronger, more delightful Bible reading, Stephen Kneale offers four guiding principles:

1. What does this say about Jesus?
2. How does this fit with/relate to other passages?
3. Read it knowing God ordained events as part of his story
4. Let the clear interpret the less clear

Kneale writes:

Though we affirm the perspicuity of scripture and the fundamental clarity of its essential message, the ever-present issue when reading the Bible is this: how do I know I am reading it rightly? It is all too easy to read ourselves into the story when it isn’t necessarily about us, miss the main point of a passage or just badly misread what is said altogether. Whilst utter interpretative perfection is unlikely to any of us, there are some helpful guiding principles that can keep us on the right track with any passage of scripture.

While these are not the only principles that could or should guide your Bible reading, they represent some good habits to develop as you go.

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