Tuesday, May 12, 2009

10 questions Lisa Robinson always asks when reading the Bible

Lisa Robinson asks the following 10 questions when reading the Bible:
  1. Am I considering the context?
  2. Am I conducting connection fallacies?
  3. Am I blowing up meaning?
  4. Am I considering the correlation?
  5. Is my flesh in the way?
  6. Am I bringing my presuppositions into the reading of the text?
  7. Am I reading my theological assumptions into the text?
  8. Am I considering alternate theological positions?
  9. Am I being dismissive of the text?
  10. Am I prayerfully allowing the text to leap in my heart and change my life?
Read her amplifying comments for each question at the Parchment and Pen blog.

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