DISCOVERING CHRIST: Know what the Bible says! A four-week study on how to interpret Scripture! by Chris Lazo - February 13, 2014
PREPARED BY CHRIS LAZO FOR REALITY SANTA BARBARA PAGE 1 Why Discovering Christ?! Do you ever feel like the Bible is difficult to understand? Or do you want to go deeper in your knowledge of God's Word? This is a four-week lecture series by pastor Chris Lazo on how to understand and interpret the Bible. Dates | Wednesdays starting February 19th - March 12th (4 weeks) Location | Center Stage Theater at the Paseo Nuevo Mall, Santa Barbara Time | 7:00pm-8:30pm Connect on facebook.com/realitysb
Nehemiah 8:8! They read out of the book of the law of God, translating and giving the meaning so that the people could understand what was read. Luke 24:27! Then beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He interpreted for them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures. Acts 8:30-31! When Philip ran up to it, he heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, “Do you understand what you’re reading?” “How can I,” he said, “unless someone guides me?” 2 Timothy 2:15! Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.
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A four-week study on how to interpret Scripture! Table of Contents (series outline)! Introduction (wk 1 - February 19)! The terms of interpretation: God’s knowability and Scripture’s clarity. The means of interpretation: Hermeneutics. The importance of interpretation: God’s condescension to humanity. The Holy Spirit’s role in interpretation: embedding and illuminating the meaning. The problems with interpretation: relativism and ethnocentrism. The 3 gaps of interpretation: language, cultural, and literary An introduction to exegesis: our primary tool (to bridge the gaps) The 3 gaps…! Language gap (wk 2 - February 26)! I. The problem of language and grammar II. Questions to ask the text III. A basic process IV. Homework Cultural gap (wk 3 - March 5)! I. Types of cultural gaps Literary gap (wk 4 - March 12)! I. Basic literary styles II. A treatment of genre Tools for study! I. General context (cultural) II. Specific context (intent) III. Immediate context (grammatical)
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Vision: going deeper. Discovering Christ is a series of lectures where we endeavor together to deepen our understanding of Jesus. The first class is about knowing who Jesus is through the Bible. The Old Testament are the writings of the prophets that Jesus himself authenticated and validated; the New Testament are writings from Apostles that Jesus himself authorized to speak on his behalf.
Jesus once said, "the Scriptures testify about me" (John 5:39). So the primary way of knowing Christ is through the Bible. Illust: abby feeding herself (takes discipline & persistence, but you can do it!) Text in questions for Q&A