$ How to Read the Bible Better (Seedbed)

The Bible is the most published, best selling, most consequential book in the history of the world. It is also one of the most complex documents ever conceived. As a consequence we see a multitude of “simple” approaches to reading the Bible. On the other end, we see many scholarly approaches to reading the ancient text. The challenge comes for those who want something between these poles—more than Sunday School but less than Seminary. How can we read the Bible on its own terms and yet in ways that form us at the deepest levels? In this three-week course, J.D. Walt, author of the Seedbed Daily Text, will help guide you through both a big picture understanding of Scripture and its context as well as a method and pathways of formative reading. How do we apply the whole of the text to the whole of ourselves and the whole of ourselves to the whole of the text?