Engaging with Scripture

Research Understanding Scripture

From Scripture Access to Scripture Engagement

MA dissertation: All Nations, UK. Abstract: The coming of the New Testament in 2006 heralded a new era of Scripture engagement for the Minyanka people of Mali. This paper evaluates the factors that have facilitated and hindered the process of…

RichardNovember 16, 2014

Bible Storytelling Understanding Scripture

Bible Overview Workshop

In this detailed 17-page workshop guide from the Ndop region of North West Cameroon, Jennifer Wright describes how participants were taken on an interactive journey through the Old Testament: What? The Bible Overview Workshop is a two day workshop for…

RichardAugust 27, 2014

Meditation and Prayer

Praying Scripture

While many tend to think of prayer and Bible reading as separate spiritual practices (e.g. first I pray, then I read the Bible), they can be even more powerful when combined into one practice of "praying Scripture." The Forum Of…

RichardMay 23, 2014

Meditation and Prayer

Lectio Divina

Scripture engagement is a way of hearing and reading the Bible with an awareness that it is in the Bible that we primarily meet God. It is a marinating on, mulling over, reflecting on, dwelling on, pondering of the Scriptures,…

RichardApril 29, 2014

Bible Reading

Bible Reading Plan for Scripture Engagement

Scripture engagement is about meeting God. It is a relational process. When you come to Scriptures, are you meditating on them, letting them be on your heart, talking about them, letting them be planted in your life, looking at them…

RichardMarch 1, 2014

Bible Reading

Community Bible Experience

Nothing is more important to church vitality—and personal spiritual growth—than a deep, sustained connection with the Bible. Community Bible Experience combines three different approaches to reading the Bible: 1. Reading Big — Participants read the entire New Testament (or large…

RichardNovember 26, 2013

Bible Reading Digital

Bible Engagement in a Digital Age

In the Jump Into the Word blog, Lawson Murray asks how the digital age will influence Bible engagement. He makes a list of possible effects: "the Bible will be read in multiple formats in an ever emerging variety of forms…

RichardNovember 11, 2013

Bible Storytelling Visual Arts

Foundation Matters – Firm Foundations Pictures

Created by Bible illustrator Graham Kennedy of Foundation Matters, these Bible pictures have been carefully chosen for accuracy to illustrate and complement the stories that are included in Firm Foundations Bible study curriculum. The 210 illustrations cover Bible stories from…

RichardNovember 1, 2013

Advocacy Bible Study

IFES Scripture Engagement

"Scripture engagement is about all of life. It is listening and responding to God’s Word alone and together with others. It is digesting and living out the Word in every relationship and circumstance. It is unashamedly and competently sharing God’s…

RichardJuly 25, 2013

Culture Music and Worship Understanding Scripture

Early engagements with the Bible among the Gogo people of Tanzania

Abstract: This study falls within the area of the Bible in African Christianity, particularly ordinary readers' appropriation of and interpretation of the Bible. It seeks to explore, firstly, the processes of the encounter between the Bible and the indigenous people…

RichardJune 12, 2013