Fishers Of Men Study

Tonight I want to talk about getting started. As I pointed out in the “Inductive Bible Study Overview outline, which you can download on from this web page,

 (http://boystomenministry.org/WeeklyBibleStudy.html) a life style of prayer is essential in studying God’s Word. I want to encourage you to simply start talking to God! Talk to Him as you take a shower, as you drive to work every opportunity you have just talk to Him. Talk to Him about the things that make you happy, things that make you sad, talk to Him about everything and anything just start talking to Him. That’s it, just start. The Lord can do amazing things with a willing heart.

Now let’s talk about Bible Study. Hopefully you have read through the book of Ephesians by now or have listened to the MP3 files of the book that you can download from this web page (http://boystomenministry.org/Ephesiansdownload.html)  If not don’t worry JUST START! Employ the power of one. Just do one thing. Don’t focus on reading all six chapters just read one. If you listen to the MP3 files each chapter is only a few minutes long. Just listen to it one time, JUST START! The first step to the Inductive Bible study after praying (life style of prayer) and reading through the book to become familiar with the context and content is Observation.

What I do is start going through the chapter verse by verse looking for the 5 W’s and marking key words. What I do is copy the text (in this case Eph 1:1-14) into a word.doc and then print it out and I use that as my working copy. I highlight, underline make note ect. I have posted a copy for you to look at to give you an idea on how I do it. Go to this web page http://boystomenministry.org/WeeklyBibleStudy.html and then click on           “Brian’s Study Scans” This is what I do you do what ever works for you the key is to DO IT!

I hope this has been helpful

Bro. Brian