Inductive Bible Study: Observation Step Process

See it
(Initial Observations)

Frame It (Summarize Observations)

Meditate It

Translate It

"Crockpot Approach"

Attitude in Personal Study

Reverence

Dependence

Receptivity

Meditate instead of reading superficially. Read the text several times.

What does it say?

Chart a book

Formal or Functional translation?

Humility

Compare text with other translations

Diagram sentence or paragraph

Put all conjunctions in bold font

Underline the modifier

Structural Relationships

Ask Questions:
Who, what where, when, why, how

Context (Historical, Literary)

Grammatical Observations

Summarize content of each chapter

Identify parts of speech, pronouns, verbs, etc.

Formal: more emphasis on orginal structure and language

Functional: emphasis on expressing meaning in today's language