Women of the Word
Hermenutics Exigegesis Apologetics? I don’t need all these big Greek words, I just need to read my Bible and may be a good devotional.
Literacy actually means “the ability to read and write”. In the case of Biblical Literacy, I believe it means to read, and understand how to live it out.
Hermenutics Exigegesis Apologetics? I don’t need all these big Greek words, I just need to read my Bible and may be a good devotional. This is what I once said before I actually knew anything about those words. Women of the Word by Jen Wilkin entirely transformed the way I read the Bible.
“I believe that a woman who loses interest in her Bible has not been equipped to love it as she should. The God of the Bible is too lovely to abandon for lesser pursuits. I want women everywhere to develop a deep and abiding love for him through the study of the text that makes him known.” Jen Wilkin - Women of the Word
Scatter-Reading, Picky Reading, Magic 8 Ball Reading, Personal Shopper (topical only), Meme Bible Reading, all of these methods that we inadvertently pick in our effort to let the Bible impact us, actually have a negative effect on us, making us vulnerable to a crumbling Biblical worldview and false teaching. Jen Wilkin has a desire to see every woman Biblically Literate and actively pursuing to know the Word more.
Women often get relegated to Bible Study groups that go through a book *about* the Bible and not really learn how to study the Bible itself. Jen Wilken helps teach you perspective and methods for studying the Bible yourself.
“When women grow increasingly lax in their pursuit of Bible literacy, everyone in their circle of influence is affected. Rather than acting as salt and light, we become bland contributions to the environments we inhabit and shape, indistinguishable from those who have never been changed by the gospel.”
With 5 P’s, Jen gives instruction, tools and perspective on how to effectively know what your Bible says!
Study with Purpose: the Bible is one long story about God and His love
Perspective: Scholars call the process of excavating the original meaning of a passage “exegesis” Exegesis says, “Before you can hear it with your ears, hear it with theirs. Before you can understand it today, understand it back then.” What did the author actually intend? And what would the hearers have understood it to mean?
Patience: Gaining Bible literacy requires allowing our study to have a cumulative effect—across weeks, months, years.
Process:
Comprehension “What does the text actually say?” Sometimes this word is replaced with “observation” but observation can be very subjective: what does it say to ME? But what we really need to know is what did the original author intend to say, which is a much different question.
Interpretation “What does the text actually mean?”
Application: “How should it change me?”
Prayer
This book transformed the way I approached studying the Bible! It can truly equip everyone with the ability to develop a deep and abiding love for Him by effectively reading the book that He wrote!