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