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Application - Coggle Diagram
Application
Why it’s important
Develops new spiritual nature
To change men
Evidence of Scripture’s relevancy and practicality
LIVE IT - Experience the text
PROCESS
Depend on God to reveal your own strengths & limits
Reverence, dependence, receptivity
Discipline of meditation on the Word
Climb the “abstraction ladder”
Time-bound proposition
Consider its transfer to present culture
Identify a general or specific principle
Find timeless application
Assess relationships
With God.
With self.
With others.
With our adversary.
Memorize the passage
Implementation
Be specific - concrete - measurable
Be prayerful
Be realistic in setting goals
Be held accountable
Be evaluated
Be aware of obstacles
Procrastinating
Emotional responses
Behavioral change but not belief
Expecting immediate results
Discovering principles of truth in Scripture
Affects belief
Affects behavior
Approaches to take
Sins to forsake
Promises to claim
Examples to learn from
Commands to obey
Stumbling block to avoid
Motives
Actions
Relationships
Thoughts
General
Indirect
Usually narratives and OT laws
Universal unless limited by context
Specific
Direct
Usually from the NT epistles
Universal unless limited by context
Subsequent revelation can also limit the application