1. God-breathed
2 Timothy 3:16-17

2. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

3. 1. The Academic approach

4. 1. The Academic approach 2. The Self-Affirming approach 3
1. The Academic approach 2. The Self-Affirming approach 3. Allegorical approach 4. Growth Approach

5. Deuteronomy 8:2-3 Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.

6. Deuteronomy 8:2-3 He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

7. Romans 15:4 For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

8. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

9. 2 Timothy 3:6-7 For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.

10. 1. Pray for honesty. 2. Identify your biases 3
1. Pray for honesty. 2. Identify your biases 3. Pray for God to guide you as you study his word. 4. Read, read, and read again 5. Ask questions of the text 6. Meditate on the text 7. Pray that God would give you the wisdom and courage to make changes in your life where necessary. And finally, and most importantly, 8. “Do what it says…” James 1:22-25 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. CONTINUED ON POWERPOINT But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it—he will be blessed in what he does.