Worldview Bible Reading Part I

Most of us, when studying the Word of God, have been trained to ask certain questions of the text. Here are some of those questions:

• Who is the author?
• Who are the recipients?
• What is the date of the writing?
• What is the purpose/theme of the book?
• What is the historical context of the writing/passage?
• What is the literary context of the writing/passage?
• What do I observe?
• What does it mean?
• What does it matter?

We have also been taught to ask the five “W’s” and an “H”- Who, What, When, Why, Where, and How? Again, these are basic questions to ask of any given text when studying God’s Word. Now, I am not saying that every time we read the Scriptures that we must ask all of these questions. I would not discredit the simple devotional reading of God’s Word. Although, I would argue that to truly gain an in-depth understanding of the Word of God one must study it in a more in-depth way by using these questions and respond to the Scriptures by providing answers for them.

I would now like to present another way (in addition to the method above) of reading God’s Word. It’s called “Worldview Bible Reading.” We are now living in a time when it is of the utmost importance to understand the way in which our God would have us view the world. What better way to do this than by asking what I call the “Worldview Questions” of the Scriptures?

**Tomorrow I will continue with a couple of definitions of the term “worldview” and follow up with a few of those “Worldview Questions.”