Like the title says, if there was a thread devoted to studying something in the scriptures (a specific chapter, a specific epistle, etc.), would you participate? And if so, to what extent do you think you'd participate?
Would You Participate in a Scripture Study Thread?
Would You Participate in a Scripture Study Thread?
Justin,
I think this is a excellent idea!
What kind of a program or structure should there be? Perhaps the Epistle and Gospel reading for each day? That is quite a bit to study, I mean each word sometimes must be studied, a sentence, a paragraph, or more may be more than we could handle.
What are your thoughts?
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I dunno about specifics, what does everyone else think? Perhaps if look at either the epistle reading or gospel reading for the day, as OOD mentioned? (I think doing both would be too time consuming if we are going to do this every day). Or possibly we could look at passages from Sunday, and then continue the thread through the week? I guess one worry about the first thing (a daily passage) would be that we would ruch through things and not really contemplate them, not really dwell on things. We'd just blurt out or piece together answers, and then the next day our attention would be on the next passage and we'd forget what we'd learnt the day before. Not that that will, of necessity, happen, but I think it's a risk. Perhaps the discussion could even go on as long as people were discussing it, rather than setting a time limit on things. If we have to talk for 3 weeks about a passage, then so be it? What do you all think?
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Paradosis and Nicholas, I like both of your ideas, I also think it would be good though if we were to concentrate on one section a week...like discuss the reading from Sunday and spend time on it all week. That way we could be thinking about it the whole time and not rush through things like you said Paradosis. What does everyone else think?
MaryCecilia