{"id":8661,"date":"2024-07-05T03:49:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T03:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8661"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:23","slug":"providing-a-template","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8661","title":{"rendered":"PROVIDING A TEMPLATE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Christians are starving for serious biblical content, not the basics of the faith with adult illustrations. If pastors don&#8217;t preach and teach the text, they don&#8217;t provide a template for how to study Scripture. If you can&#8217;t retrace your pastor&#8217;s sermon in the biblical text after Sunday, you may need to find a mentor somewhere else.&#8221; Michael S. Heiser, <i>Brief Insights on Mastering Bible Study<\/i>, Chapter 26<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the main weaknesses of the topical preaching found in so many pulpits (not to mention the topical teaching in most group study curriculum) is that it rarely sets a biblical passage in its context.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And if the context is never explored, then zero opportunity exists for the teacher\/preacher to &#8220;provide a template for how to study Scripture&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It seems like many preachers have resigned themselves to be the lone Bible student of the entire congregation. (And then even they get lax about it.)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Me? I may not always hit the mark, but I do strive to model how to think through a text.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It takes effort and strategy to get under the surface of a passage of Scripture to where the deep truth lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Christians are starving for serious biblical content, not the basics of the faith with adult illustrations. If pastors don&#8217;t preach and teach the text, they don&#8217;t provide a template for how to study Scripture. If you can&#8217;t retrace your pastor&#8217;s sermon in the biblical text after Sunday, you may need to find a mentor somewhere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8662,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8661\/revisions\/8662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}