ONE MEANING: Why "What Does This Mean to You?" Is the Wrong Question: The Interactive Workbook on How to Study the Bible - Couverture souple

Andrade, Dr Phillip G

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798994586853

Editeur : Auxano, 2026

Synopsis

Most Bible studies start with the wrong question. This workbook gives you a better one.

In church basements and living rooms across America, Bible study groups open with the same question: "What does this verse mean to you?" It sounds humble and inviting. But it teaches people to treat Scripture as a mirror rather than a message — and it's slowly producing a generation of believers who love the Bible without knowing it.

The problem isn't reading the Bible less. It's reading it worse.

In ONE MEANING: The Interactive Workbook, pastor and theologian Rev. Dr. Phillip G. Andrade offers a clear, simple alternative rooted in centuries of faithful interpretation: every passage of Scripture has one correct interpretation and many possible applications — and you can find them in that order, without a seminary degree.

The Five-Step Method You'll Practice:

• Observation — Read carefully. Record only what you see.


• Context — Who wrote it? To whom? What's happening?


• Meaning — What did the original author intend?


• Principle — What timeless truth carries across time?


• Application — Now: how does it touch your specific life?

What Makes This Workbook Different:

• Three types of interactive exercises: Pause to Reflect, Try It Yourself, and Key Concept boxes


• A full worked example on Matthew 6:25–34 showing the method in motion


• A chapter on literary genre — because you can't read a Psalm like a letter from Paul


• A chapter on the most common interpretation errors believers make


• Appendices for small group leaders, a six-week study plan, concordance usage, and a glossary


• Additional worked studies for journal use or group discussion

Who This Workbook Is For: Individual believers who want to study the Bible with confidence. Small group leaders looking for a method they can teach. Pastors who want to equip their congregations. Anyone who has walked away from a Bible study feeling like they learned everyone's opinions but not what the passage said.

"The goal is not to finish this book. The goal is to become a different kind of reader."

All Scripture quotations from the Legacy Standard Bible (LSB).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Auxano
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798994586853
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 162
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