Apply, Apply, Apply!

Application Is Necessary For Our Lives

Step 1: Pray for insight on how to apply the passage.

Step 2: Meditate on the verse (s) you have chosen to study.

Step 3: Write out an application.

Step 4: Memorize a key verse from your study.

S-P-A-C-E-P-E-T-S – Acrostic.

Is there any…

Sin to confess? Do I need to make any restitution?

Promise to claim? Is it a universal promise? Have I met the condition (s)?

Attitude to change? Am I willing to work on a negative attitude and begin building toward a positive one?

Command to obey? Am I willing to do it no matter how I feel?

Example to follow? Is it a positive example for me to copy, or a negative one to avoid?

Prayer to pray? Is there anything I need to pray back to God?

Error to avoid? Is there any problem that I should be alert to or beware of?

Truth to believe? What new things can I learn about God the Father, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, or other biblical teachings?

Something to praise God for? Is there something here I can be thankful for?

(Rick Warren’s Bible Study Methods)

Biblical Illiteracy…

“Biblical illiteracy is rampant even though so many people seem to be getting into the Word. The Bible is the best-selling, least-read, and least-understood book…It’s the real dumbing down of America, in that sense” (Washington Post, Dec. 9, 2000).

The English Standard Version

Read Wayne Jackson’s review of the ESV.

Lethargy and the Church

Brother David Lipscomb used to say, “Brothers and sisters, we are playing at religion.” Unquestionably, lethargy is one of our greatest problems in the church of our generation. Thus, there is a need to arouse the church therefrom.

- Wendell Winkler Lecture in The Restoration: The Winds of Change.

Brother Winkler’s lecture needs to be read, meditated upon, preached, taught, and relayed to the people in our pews. He presents the definition, examples, areas, causes, the cure, the antithesis, and the tragedies of lethargy in the church today.

By clicking on the following link you can download it in PDF.

The Need Of The Present Day: To Arouse The Church From Its Lethargy.